{"id":89028,"date":"2021-02-15T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=89028"},"modified":"2021-03-09T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T11:06:43","slug":"modular-offsite-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-offsite-build\/89028\/","title":{"rendered":"World of modular preview: Offsite construction, safety, and Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>John Buongiorno, director of the modular division at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaxisgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Axis Construction<\/a>, discusses how Axis has helped push\u00a0modular to the next level<\/h2>\n<p>After graduating from college, John Buongiorno \u2014 who is now the director of the modular division at Axis Construction \u2014 worked for someone who owned a few different companies. Buongiorno was involved in importing cars, but the office trailer leasing business kept growing and he was repeatedly pulled over there. Eventually, he settled in for the ride and helped the company grow even more \u2014 from 50 or 60 rental trailers to five times that number.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few years, Buongiorno worked for a couple of other national modular companies, and frequently hired Axis Construction to build foundations and do other onsite construction work. He became friends with one of the owners and they started talking about teaming up so Axis could do its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-homes-in-spain\/88814\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modular builds<\/a>. Eventually, Buongiorno moved to Axis and founded its modular division. \u201cAnd here I am, 22 years later,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Axis is primarily a construction management and general contracting firm that focuses mainly on healthcare, although they also work in other sectors such as education, self-storage, and pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p>These days, the modular division accounts for an average of 20% to 25% of Axis\u2019 annual revenue.<\/p>\n<h3>Current and favourite projects<\/h3>\n<p>Axis is currently in the design phase of a project that\u2019s different from their usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/guides-reviews\/modular-advantage-innovation\/85632\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modular projects<\/a> because it uses repurposed shipping containers. <a href=\"https:\/\/bmarkostructures.com\/\">BMarko Structures<\/a> in Georgia will manufacture the modules. The project is a 13,000 sq ft, two story building for the Portsmouth Naval Station in Maine that will provide offices and accommodations for sailors as they come off their ships.<\/p>\n<p>One of Buongiorno\u2019s favourite projects was an addition to the pediatric emergency department at the Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in New York. \u201cThe first shovel in the ground for that project was the first week of March, 2020,\u201d Buongiorno says. We all know what happened next.<\/p>\n<p>Despite setbacks caused by Covid-19, \u201cWe were able to get the foundation done, get the services ready, and deliver the building by the end of April. We had full approvals with the Department of Health before the Fourth of July. So, in under 11 weeks, we went from an empty parking lot to patients in the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Experienced With modular<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s valuable to learn from companies like Axis that have been using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/guides-reviews\/modular-advantage-world\/85635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modular construction<\/a> methods for a long time and have figured out how to be profitable in doing so, Buongiorno says.<\/p>\n<p>In Buongiorno\u2019s view, building bare boxes in the factory, and doing lots of work on site isn\u2019t how to make the most of modular. By reducing onsite time, the total costs for general conditions are reduced. The modules Axis builds (usually by partnering with MODLOGIQ) come out of the factory at a very high level of completion, leaving less to do onsite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of nice-looking modular buildings out there. But they\u2019re built from raw boxes that were sent out of the factory, stacked, and <em>then<\/em> had a lot of work done onsite \u2014 such as the painting, ductwork, the primary electrical systems, the flooring, plumbing, and siding. Modular companies often deliver buildings that are 15% to 20% complete. We deliver buildings that are 85% complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buongiorno says this means that for projects like the Good Samaritan, \u201cInstead of it taking 11 weeks like it took us, it probably would have taken someone else more like 20 or 22 weeks. Everyone wants to realize the speed of modular, but very few actually have. We speak from firsthand experience with doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>World of modular presentation<\/h3>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modular.org\/HtmlPage.aspx?name=2021_world_of_modular_welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World of Modular<\/a> event in March 2020, Jim Gabriel \u2014 the general manager at MODLOGIQ \u2014 and John Buongiorno made the case that conventionally built healthcare projects can pose significant risks to patients, staff, and visitors. In contrast, offsite construction can significantly reduce the risks to patient and staff safety \u2014 as well as minimise the impact on the critical operations of an active patient care environment. This year&#8217;s session will revisit the subject in the wake of the global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Buongiorno says that when he gives presentations, it tends to open doorways of possibilities. People approach him both to learn more and also because they\u2019re interested in working on a project together. He also says it\u2019s important to give presentations about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/guides-reviews\/modular-advantage-may-june-2020\/76046\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modular construction<\/a> to keep getting the message out there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this industry. I love what we do at Axis. The support provided by our president and CEO, Ralph Lambert, has helped push modular to the next level. But modular is still a very small fraction of the new builds that go on in the United States,\u201d Buongiorno says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo often, the perception is still that modular means trailers. We build <em>real<\/em> buildings. There are no special codes, no shortcuts. We have a different delivery method. And we can build you just about anything you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published in the Modular Building Institute\u2019s Modular Advantage magazine \u2013 January\/February 2021 Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zena Ryder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Freelance writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenafreelancewriter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.zenafreelancewriter.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zena-freelance-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zena Ryder<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Buongiorno, director of the modular division at Axis Construction, discusses how Axis has helped push\u00a0modular to the next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[676,856,464,54592,908,432,572,916,627,696,50224],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172484],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mmc-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-construction-technology","9":"tag-contributor-profile","10":"tag-coronavirus","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-health-safety","13":"tag-housebuilding","14":"tag-modern-methods-of-construction","15":"tag-modular-construction","16":"tag-offsite-construction","17":"tag-sh-modular-building-institute","18":"stakeholder_rel_tag-modular-building-institute"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World of modular preview: Offsite construction, safety, and Covid<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Buongiorno, director of the modular division at Axis Construction, discusses how Axis has helped push\u00a0modular to the next level\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-offsite-build\/89028\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World of modular preview: Offsite construction, safety, and a global pandemic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Buongiorno, director of the modular division at Axis Construction, discusses how Axis has helped push modular to the next level\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-offsite-build\/89028\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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