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The MOD X team is committed to bridging the gap between theory and practice. Our academic research informs and is in turn informed by our active participation in the evolving volumetric modular industry.

Prefab Architecture: A Guide to Modular Design and Construction

Written for architects and related design and construction professionals, Prefab Architecture is a guide to off-site construction, presenting the opportunities and challenges associated with designing and building with components, panels, and modules.

Offsite Architecture: constructing the future

Offsite Architecture establishes the current – and future – state of thinking in this field. A range of the most highly regarded thinkers and practitioners from around the globe share their ideas and practical findings on offsite prefabrication, examining theory and practice, opportunities and challenges, successes and failures.

Prefab Housing and the Future of Building: process and product

International housing affordability crises, emerging technologies, and concerns for more sustainable building practices have given a new urgency to the need to transform building construction in the 21st century.

Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction: people process and technology

Content includes a balance between case studies and practice-based work, through to technical topics, theoretical propositions, pioneering research and future offsite opportunities ready for exploitation.

5 in 5 Modular Growth Initiative: research roadmap recommendations

This research uncovers the obstacles to modular growth in North America and recommends a roadmap for modular to grow to 5% of the construction market in 5 years.

Permanent Modular Construction: process practice performance

This first report to quantify the cost and schedule savings of modular construction compared to traditional site built with lessons learned included from 18 case studies.

Solid Timber Construction: process practice performance

This report collected data on 17 mass timber projects globally and compared the cost and schedule performance to site built construction

Mass Customization and Design Democratization

The book examines what mass customization means for architecture and the building industry and investigates its impact on the sector’s most commoditized enterprise – suburban housing.

Off-site Construction Industry Survey

This survey builds upon the 2014 precedent outlining the opportunities and challenges associated with off-site construction in the U.S.

Off-site Construction Industry Survey of Software Usage

This survey presents the state of software adoption and utilization in the off-site construction industry in the U.S.

Mass Timber: an introduction to solid laminate timber systems

This book outlines the products and processes of mass timber construction with key case studies included. MOD X contributed to this text authored by Robert Hairstans in the UK.

Building Systems: design technology society

We can no longer view building components as artifacts (a brick or a boiler) or as autonomous systems (air conditioning or prefabrication). Rather these components and systems are part of much larger systems of which architects are one agent.

Production - Journal of Architectural Education 71:1

This issue was edited by MOD X and presents articles and interviews on architectural production and prefabrication.

Product Review for Connect Homes

This article reviews Connect Homes prefabricated housing system.

Industrialized Wood Construction

This special journal issue is two part on light wood frame and mass timber contemporary research.

Offsite Hub Scotland

This article presents a framework for establishing offsite construction knowledge communities regionally.

OFFSITE: theory and practice of architectural production

This is the proceedings of the ACSA 2012 Fall Conference on offsite production.

Developing Timber Volume Calculators

This article presents timber volume calculators that can be used to quantify the volume of wood used in platform frame panelized, modular and site built construction.

Leading Collaborative Architectural Practice

This is a book focused on the the behavioral tactics associated with leading integrated project delivery teams and managing firms through collaborative leadership.

Prefab Architecture in Korean

Prefab Architecture was translated into the Korean language in 2018.

MASS. Modular

This research booklet was generated by MOD X and a team of graduate students at Northeastern University in Fall 2016.

MASS. Production

This research booklet was generated by MOD X and a team of graduate students at Northeastern University in Fall 2014.

Homework

This research booklet was generated by MOD X and a team of graduate students at Northeastern University in Fall 2010.

Homework Conference Proceedings

Proceedings of the Homework conference, April 2009.

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