Sentence examples for modular industry from inspiring English sources
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"And we are seeing a growing number of stick builders getting into the modular industry".
"The real future for the modular industry is building customized housing in the moderately upscale housing market," Mr. Hallahan said, noting that such housing is prevalent in much of the metropolitan area.
According to Joseph Tanney, the architect and principal of Resolution: 4, which focuses now on single-family prefab but is getting numerous inquiries about multifamily these days for everything from dorms to micro-units, "The residential modular industry is salivating at the prospect of building more multifamily projects.
To use a programming metaphor, we used to be a highly modular industry, with startups offering "parts" that other companies put together, from the defense contractors of the 1950s all the way to the software of the 1990s.
"Twenty years ago, the modular home industry probably deserved its 'cookie cutter' reputation," said Fred Hallahan, principal of Hallahan Associates, a Baltimore-based consultant to the modular home industry.
Both Mr. Schmetterer and Mr. Jupiter acknowledge that they've had to struggle to overcome a stereotype that plagues the modular construction industry — one of flimsy wooden structures and unattractive vinyl siding.
Bullitt — co-founded by ex-Motorola execs and staffed with many alums from once-huge, now disappeared European handset makers — is very much a product of the modern, modular phone industry (the one that sits at the other end of vertically integrated devices from the likes of Apple and, now, Google).
"The engineering has been the challenge," said Tom Hardiman, executive director of the Modular Building Institute, a trade association for the modular-construction industry.
"The modular allows the industry to circumvent that housing discrimination, and in effect a modular will be treated like any other form of housing," he said.
Modularity is a strategy recognized by the academia and the industry, and modular architecture is argued to play an important role in the development of sustainable products.
