Builders turn to modular when they’re feeling the squeeze of tight timelines, tight labor pools, and sometimes, tight spaces. Modular techniques can be very effective when working with unusual build sites, like a 45-unit apartment complex in Oakland only a little wider than the length of a  pickup truck.

As housing shortages continue across the Bay Area, single family residential areas are increasingly welcoming multifamily developments. This development leverages modular construction to minimize noise and site disruption in a family neighborhood while creating housing for nine families on a small footprint.

Modular construction offers significant advantages in speed, cost, and labor that can help solve the affordable housing crisis facing the US today. The Chamonix complex in Vail is one example of how we’re putting modular to use addressing housing shortages.

Affordable luxury business hotel chain Citizen M is changing the hospitality industry by reducing wasted room space and focusing on fashionable common spaces, downtown locations, and a hip design aesthetic. Even better, they’re getting up and running faster with modular construction.

In the Lake Tahoe area, wealthy visitors have created economic growth, driving up housing prices and creating significant workforce demands. The town of Truckee, like many resort towns, is turning to modular construction to building affordable housing quickly and efficiently.

Intensifying Bay Area traffic is creating demand for housing conveniently located near public transit, without sacrificing quality of life. Coliseum Connections is an example of the higher level of quality made possible by modular methods.

The demand for modular construction for West Coast housing, and modular manufacturing capacity, has never been higher. Prefab Logic is working with companies like Factory_OS to meet it, and solve the multifamily housing crisis for the entire region.

By leveraging efficient modular construction, owners of the Gateway Family Housing complex will pass on savings to current and prospective tenants, adding 58 new units to the town’s affordable housing inventory.

Soon, tech visionaries visiting Fremont, California, will be able to stay at a modular hotel at the leading edge of construction: the Hilton Garden Inn.

This 100-room Fairfield Inn & Suites will be centrally located in Sonoma County, where tourism is driving a tremendous need for hospitality projects. The hotel demonstrates that designers have every opportunity to make a commercial property feel like home.

By using modular construction on their new projects, global hotel chain Marriott is leading the industry forward. Prefab Logic is helping smooth the way by consulting on this project in Oakland, and creating a hip, affordable hotel with stylish exterior accents and fashionable, economical rooms.

The Oakland International Seniors affordable housing project is an example of how Prefab Logic is solving the affordable housing crisis by helping developers reduce costs and increase labor efficiency with modular construction.

The picturesque community of San Anselmo is located squarely within the most expensive rental market in the country, putting seniors in particular at a disadvantage. This modular in-fill project at One Lincoln Park will turn a sloping vacant lot into much-needed housing for local seniors.