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A new home for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority embodies its mission through climate-conscious design.

This special section highlights materials, design approaches, research, and technologies that can reduce carbon footprints across scales and typologies.

Twenty-eight shipping containers create a portable version of Florida’s famed Bal Harbour Shops that combines industrial materials with elegant design.

Expansion projects at the L.A and Atlanta airports exemplify how modular and prefabricated construction can reduce costs, shorten timelines, and minimize disruptions.

As New York City grapples with a public restroom crisis, modular design presents a quicker and cheaper approach to expansion.

Gigon Guyer’s CreaTower will likely be the first project to debut a prefabricated concrete flooring solution that draws on historical vaulting techniques and cuts embodied carbon by two thirds.

Through a combination of prefabricated components and strategic construction methods, the new bridge demonstrates how complex infrastructure can be built with minimal disruption.

New approaches to modular construction from Houston to London are showing improved results in cost, quality, and construction timelines.

Using 25 repeating CLT panel shapes, the newly patented housing system achieves a construction cost of $550 per square foot in California’s expensive market.

This special section explores the latest in prefabrication, highlighting technological advances, structural innovations, and feats of infrastructural engineering.