Fast Company recently published an article declaring, ‘the age of modular architecture’. They wrote: “The dream of modular architecture has been kicking around for decades. Has its time finally come?” Skender, a Chicago-based construction company, says it has the answer. Skender hopes to deliver integrated offering, implementing its cutting-edge design, manufacturing, and construction methodology into a single process, in the same way, Emerald Modular is looking to do.
CEO Mark Skender believes: “it will cut construction costs by as much as 15%, and speed up construction by as much as 40%. ‘It shifts the mentality’ away from the conventional building process, where a developer hires an architect, an engineer, and a contractor, and then the contractor hires out subcontractors, says CEO Mark Skender. That traditional workflow makes it easy to miscommunicate and to shift blame when things do go wrong, which can lead to lengthy delays, budget overruns, and litigation. ‘What we’re looking to do is, ‘Here’s this building, with its features and its benefits, and we will deliver that for X.’ It’s a product-based mentality that shifts the paradigm on the way we deliver buildings.'”
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