Off site prefabrication construction is changing the way buildings are designed, manufactured and assembled. Instead of producing every component at the construction site, significant parts of the building can be manufactured in a controlled factory environment and transported to site for installation. The idea is straightforward, but successful prefabrication requires much more than moving construction […]

An environmental product declaration (EPD) is becoming an increasingly important source of environmental information for architects, engineers, developers, contractors and construction-product manufacturers. As the construction industry focuses more strongly on embodied carbon, material efficiency and whole-life environmental performance, simply describing a product as “sustainable” is no longer enough. Design teams increasingly need measurable information that […]