Are Modular Constructions Truly Modern Methods Of Construction?

Modular constructions are the sectional prefabricated buildings that majorly consist of multiple sections called modules. They are truly an effective building solution that can result in speeding up the time in the construction industry.

This could be said because modular buildings during their construction use multiple modules that are six sided boxes and are constructed in a way to provide remote facility. These are then delivered at the intended site of use. For this purpose, forklift such as crane are used in order to set the building’s foundation and are joined together to make a single building. These modules are usually placed end-to-end, side-by-side or are stacked by allowing wide variety of configurations as well as styles in the building layout.

The trends of modular constructions are on hype since past few years. These modular buildings are considered as safer, durable as well as certified building option for most of the people. These modular constructions has been used since last few years for construction of commercial, residential as well as industrial projects thereby offering huge quality control. But the real question is how one could say that it is truly modern method of construction? So to prove this fact, let us have further look on its advantages as well as other related benefits of modular construction.

Advantages of modular construction:

• Speedy Construction:
  Through modular constructions the buildings as well as the site work are being completed simultaneously, ultimately reducing the overall completion schedule of about 50%. Moreover, it is more important supervising all the progress closely, especially on the manufacturing plants.
  
  
• Indoor Construction:
  The assembling of the modules used in modular construction is independent of weather. This results in increasing the work efficiency as well as in avoiding the damage of the building material.
• Different Environmental Benefits:
  • Huge vehicle movements towards the site are being reduced up to 90% as compared to the site-based construction methods. So this minimizes congestion as well as carbon emissions.
  • Various structures of modular buildings has huge amount of recycled content like- steel, glass, plasterboard as well as aluminium.  This reduces material waste up to 90%.
  • Modular constructions help in reducing any harmful impact of various materials that are used in forming roofs, walls and floors. These have an ozone depleting potential of zero.
  • It requires less than 67% of energy in building modular construction as compared to traditional constructed buildings.
• Healthier:
  As the modular homes are built in a factory, usually the materials are stored indoors under a controlled environment, thereby removing off the risk of mold, rust, mildew as well as sun damage that could lead to serious human respiratory problems. In general, the traditional site-built homes are greatly at a risk from all these threats.
• Helps in Saving Money:
  The faster construction ultimately means that the less money is being paid.
  
  
  The completion of the modular building takes place so fast that it reduces the amount of money being paid as the interest. Also the modular buildings are energy efficient as well as produces saving as soon as the construction of modular building is being completed.
• Reduction of Waste:
  The modules are usually built in under a controlled process and thus each stage is being carefully planned as well as analysed by the modular plant.
  
  
  Majority of the waste produced are either being recycled or they have been reused in the process that ultimately contributes in reduction of the amount of waste that are being directed towards landfills.

Thus, the above points definitely proves that modular constructions are truly modern methods of constructions as it provides several benefits in terms of preserving environment, usage of materials as well as its durability and efficiency.

Author’s Bio:
Daniel, working with modular portable building company is sharing some important points when compared with traditional construction of buildings.