Call it a mother-in-law suite, a granny flat, a guest house, a backyard office, an accessory dwelling unit, or just your own sweet compact home. Whichever name you choose for it, there’s no denying ...

UK-based design studio Koto has recently joined forces with American home-builders Abodu to create a prefabricated tiny house that can be installed onsite in two weeks. Dubbed Koto X Abodu, the 495-sq ...

Modular and panelized construction is trending up for residential and commercial builds. We talked with three companies seeing increased demand for their products and services. Factory prefab can ...

Resolving America’s housing crisis would ensure affordable, stable homes, leading to economic stability, improving quality of life and bringing back the American Dream. Innovations in design and ...

San Francisco startup Cosmic is making ADUs that generate enough energy to power itself and the main home. Cosmic has two models: a studio starting at $190,000 and a one-bedroom starting at $370,000.

If off-grid homes and shipping container houses interest you, you probably heard of Dvele. Inhabitat covered the company before, detailing its prefab projects and DveleIQ software. But there’s more to ...

Think of it: a triple-decker, from a pile of lumber, pipes, wires, and windows on a factory floor to a finished home in a ...

This browser does not support the video element. The term “prefab home” may conjure up images of a double-wide mobile home. But that is a misconception, experts say. A seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom ...

The cost to build a modular home is between $180,000 to $360,000, with a national average cost of $270,000. Factors that affect the total cost of a modular home ...

Jeffrey Dowell and Barbara Poushinsky’s home in the rural community of Rideau Ferry, Ont., about an hour outside Ottawa, has a barn-style gable roof and chipper red siding. Inside, the high ceiling, ...

Keepers of the Circle, operated by the Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group, is building a 24,000-square-foot factory in ...

Modular building, if brought to scale, has the potential to reduce construction costs and make building new homes more affordable, especially in areas experiencing severe affordable housing shortages.