Dive Brief:
- Modular construction is well-adapted to repetitive construction, like buildings full of patient rooms, making it increasingly popular in the healthcare industry.
- A survey found that modular is being used to some degree in 49% of healthcare construction projects, which is the highest utilization rate of any industry.
- Building information management systems are helping to make modular work by specifying systems integration so pieces of the project fit together at the job site without needing extensive and expensive rework.
Dive Insight:
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Forth Worth provides an example of how BIM-driven modular fabrication is being used. The hospital specified prefabricated headwalls with electrical conduits and gas and vacuum lines built in at a nearby facility and brought to the site ready to be erected. That eliminated various trades bumping into each other doing on-site installation, hospital officials said.
