I recently took a day trip to Joshua Tree which is a beautiful California State Park located a few hours outside of Los Angeles. Joshua tree has a unique kind of beauty with large piles of rocks strewn across a desert landscape dotted with Yuccas and Joshua Trees. This park Continue reading
For our customers’ convenience, we provide several electrical options for our modular buildings. Our hollow raceways which form part of the framing for our modular walls can house all sorts of electrical components, such as phone and data lines, AV jacks, power outlets, light switches, and even power-saving motion sensors Continue reading
We’ve seen the various exciting looks we could get with color facings on our modular walls. With custom color facings, businesses can have an appealing thematic look to their modular wall configurations or match up with their brand colors. With the addition of powder-coated frames and mezzanine structures, some very Continue reading
This week has seen several stories indicating the increasing presence of modular construction, which is becoming the construction method of choice for construction companies around the world. We’ve talked plenty of times about why this is so: the great quality of a modular building, the savings in costs, time, and Continue reading
Allied Modular Building Systems is supplying the Facebook company with a guardhouse for their Menlo Park facility. The guardhouse – which is a 6’ x 8’ portable building that will be anchored to their existing concrete slab – features a stainless steel counter and a sliding glass window for various required Continue reading
The great thing about design-build companies is their integrated approach to construction, which ensures that you get what you originally envisioned. With constant communication from the design process all the way to the construction process, there are less opportunities for misunderstanding or error. Allied Modular will work with you every step Continue reading
Design-build can be described as a project delivery method of building in which there is one contractor responsible for the entire construction project: the design phase and the construction or build phase. Common advantages cited for this method include accountability, organizational and coordinating advantages, and reduction in costs. In a Continue reading
Yet another indication that the construction industry is adopting more modular building methods as a whole: this article talks about a construction company considering modular construction for building high rise housing in New York, due to its many advantages. The article talks about the potential advantages of modern technology when it Continue reading
We’ve talked about modular nuclear reactors before. Basically any new construction technology that employs modular construction methods is of interest to this blog. As we’ve said before, modular construction methods are quickly becoming the dominant mode of construction and are being used for many different kinds of applications in today’s construction Continue reading
Now here’s an interesting proposal: a 200-story skyscraper that functions as an entire city. The city would hold about 100,000 people and would contain many features of a city such as business/retail, entertainment, shopping, etc. The inhabitants wouldn’t need cars, and the building would be highly energy and material efficient. Continue reading