Category: Customer Case Studies

Offsight customer CNTNR is a leading commercial modular builder in North America. They are leveraging repurposed shipping containers as frames for their modular multifamily projects. CNTNR has business operations across the United States and Canada and their factory operations based in Monterrey, Mexico. They partnered with Offsight early in their prefab journey and adopted Offsight’s technology along with […]

Offsight customer Eastcut Wood Building Solutions is a leading building component manufacturer that provides a variety of crucial components including pre-built wall, roof and floors systems for major residential and commercial construction projects across Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada.  Their focus on offsite factory manufacturing and prefabrication of critical components saves time and money, results in fast and […]

Prefabrication for healthcare construction is booming. On recent hospital projects 25% of the critical components including the vast majority of the exterior walls were prefabricated. The reliance on prefabrication in healthcare construction has allowed builders to drastically reduce construction timelines and costs with some projects seeing an 81% improvement in manpower utilization once full production of prefabricated building components […]

Canada’s housing crisis has hit record levels with the Canada Housing and Mortgage Corp estimating a shortfall of 3.5 Million homes by 2030.This supply gap is increasing rapidly due to rising immigration levels. In fact, according to a Desjardins Report, Canada will have to increase their housing starts by 50% immediately to fill this rising demand.  To address […]

With specialty contractors seeing 20 – 50% acceleration in project schedules and more than 20% overall cost savings on major projects by leveraging offsite construction and prefabrication, many are seeking to invest in and rapidly grow their prefab businesses. ‍Offsight customer and leading specialty contractor Performance Contracting Inc is at the forefront of this movement. As they point out “Prefabrication is […]

With a new $256 Billion profit pool open to offsite construction projects in the coming years, many developers and owners are considering investments in their own factories to capitalize on this major opportunity. Developer and Offsight customer, Ginosko Development Company,owns and operates over 4900 units of multi-family housing. In order to benefit from the upcoming wave of offsite construction projects […]

Standing in front of a large audience on the National Mall at the 2022 Innovative Housing Showcase, with many state-of-the-art modular and manufactured home prototypes on display, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge announced, “This may in fact be the future of housing and we are on the cutting edge of making it happen for every single American.” […]

Specialty Contractors are currently experiencing record high demand for their services but due to supply chain constraints owners and general contractors have been aggressively turning to subcontractors who can deliver their products and services efficiently. In fact, the looming long term crisis in the availability of skilled construction workers, of which 40% of specialty contractors have identified […]

As it stands Canada needs to build 5.8 million new homes by 2030 to tackle a rapidly growing affordable housing crisis. The majority of this supply gap is in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The supply gap and affordability crisis is most pronounced in the City of Toronto where the city council has been […]

LA’s Affordable Housing Crisis Is Growing, CRATE Modular Has an Answer Los Angeles is currently experiencing a massive shortage in affordable homes. The government estimates that this stands around 500,000 units across the city. In California as whole the shortage was estimated to be as high as 3,000,000 – 4,000,000 homes as of 2017. The solution to this […]