{"id":89080,"date":"2021-02-16T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T12:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=89080"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T12:05:20","slug":"modular-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-installation\/89080\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Modular preview: How setting differs for steel or wood modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Scott Bridger, co-founder of modular installation subcontracting company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosetmodular.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProSet Inc<\/a>, takes a look at how the setting process differs for steel and wood modules<\/h2>\n<p>Scott Bridger has worked in construction for his whole career. He was a general contractor in conventional construction when he first met Matt Mitchell in their hometown, Telluride, Colorado. Mitchell had been working in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/guides-reviews\/modular-advantage-world\/85635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modular construction<\/a> for more than 25 years. In 2014, the pair founded ProSet Inc., a modular installation subcontracting company, \u201cin response to the high demand for larger-scale multi-family and hospitality modular projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their first project consisted of three modular apartment buildings in North Dakota. After that initial success, \u201cthe timing worked out really well for our second project,\u201d Bridger recalls. \u201cIt was right when Marriott adopted modular as its preferred way to build. So our second project was Marriott\u2019s first modular hotel \u2014 in Folsom, California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, ProSet has installed the majority of modular brand hotels in the western United States, including Hilton, IHG (Holiday Inn Express), Choice, and Marriott.<\/p>\n<p>As ProSet grew, Bridger and Mitchell got repeated requests to do full scope general contracting work for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-offsite-build\/89028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modular projects<\/a>. So they brought on a third partner, Rick Buckendorf, and in 2017 founded a new company, ProSet Construction Inc., to perform general contracting for modular projects.<\/p>\n<p>ProSet Construction works with many different modular manufacturers, including some overseas companies. \u201cThe details of a project \u2014 its size, the number of stories, the location, and so on \u2014 determine who\u2019s the right manufacturer for any particular project,\u201d Bridger says.<\/p>\n<h3>Current project<\/h3>\n<p>Although ProSet has installed many projects in the hospitality sector, that work is currently slower because of the pandemic. But demand for market-rate multifamily housing as well as for affordable and supportive housing has remained strong.<\/p>\n<p>ProSet was recently hired by Vesta Modular to install the modules for an interim housing project for the formerly homeless in Los Angeles. In addition to Vesta, two other modular manufacturers are involved in the project: Crate, who will be supplying micro units made from converted shipping containers, and Palomar, who will be supplying wood modular units. Guerdon will supply temporary, relocatable units for the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re going to solve the housing crisis in the United States, we need to build more efficiently, and modular is really starting to gain a foothold in affordable and supportive housing,\u201d Bridger says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore developers are getting on board with modular earlier in the process and they\u2019re repeating the same type of product. This is how they\u2019re really benefiting from the efficiencies of modular. That progress in the industry right now is exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Bridger is quick to emphasise that maximizing efficiency by using repeatable designs doesn\u2019t mean that every building a developer builds looks the same. \u201cIt\u2019s very easy to articulate the modules to get stepped building fa\u00e7ades, to have different finishes, and so on. But, for efficiency, the design should use mostly straight walls and square corners. But that\u2019s typical of most multi-family designs that are conventionally built anyway. The efficiencies come through rapid repetition, without having to continuously re-design these buildings from scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not only affordable and supportive housing projects that benefit from the efficiencies of repetition. Hospitality projects can also realise these efficiencies by using a \u201crepeatable prototype\u201d Bridger says. It\u2019s not a problem if a Fairfield Inn in one city looks the same as a Fairfield Inn in another city. In fact, it can be part of a brand\u2019s identity, so that customers come to expect the same type of room, no matter which Fairfield Inn they stay in. And modular lends itself to the typical hotel design with a hotel room on either side of a straight corridor. \u201cI can go into any modern Fairfield Inn and wouldn\u2019t be able to tell the difference between one that was conventionally built and one that used modular construction \u2014 except for the noise,\u201d Bridger says. \u201cModular hotel rooms are much quieter than conventionally built hotel rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>World of Modular presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Once he got involved in the industry, Bridger started attending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modular.org\/HtmlPage.aspx?name=2021_world_of_modular_welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World of Modular.<\/a> Then ProSet started having a booth at the conference each year. \u201cIt\u2019s a really great opportunity to talk to different stakeholders in the industry,\u201d Bridger says.<\/p>\n<p>For the last couple of years, ProSet has been involved in panel discussions and giving presentations. \u201cFor us personally, giving presentations is good exposure to potential clients. But the discussions we have also help to advance the industry as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given that one of ProSet\u2019s current projects involves both wood modules and converted shipping containers, it\u2019s especially fitting that Bridger\u2019s World of Modular presentation this year will be about the installation of different types of modules \u2014 wood, steel, and shipping containers. Bridger says, \u201cThere are important differences between the processes for stacking different types of modules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published in the Modular Building Institute\u2019s Modular Advantage magazine &#8211; January\/February 2021 Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modular.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Modular Building Institute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/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>Scott Bridger, co-founder of modular installation subcontracting company ProSet Inc, takes a look at how the setting process differs for steel and wood modules.<\/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":[594,676,916,627,696,50224,32292,26264],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172484],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mmc-news","7":"tag-building-design","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-modern-methods-of-construction","10":"tag-modular-construction","11":"tag-offsite-construction","12":"tag-sh-modular-building-institute","13":"tag-steel","14":"tag-steel-frame-construction","15":"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: How setting differs for steel or wood modules<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scott Bridger, co-founder of modular installation company ProSet Inc, takes a look at how the setting process differs for steel and wood modules\" \/>\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-installation\/89080\/\" \/>\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: How setting differs for steel or wood modules\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scott Bridger, co-founder of modular installation subcontracting company ProSet Inc, takes a look at how the setting process differs for steel and wood modules\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-installation\/89080\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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