Reshaping building through the global prefab revolutionSUPPLIED Architect Timothy Swanson says the world's cities are densifying around their urban cores. Chicago-based architect Timothy Swanson believes the building industry is entering a period of revolutionary change in which old, inefficient ways of building will be swept away. A fragmented building industry had not had the same pressure put on it, either to build more efficiently, or to build efficient-to-run homes. That meant the potential for adding jobs by building prefabrication plants, something that Skender was embarking on in the US. The world over people were packing into cities' urban cores in search of jobs and urban lifestyles, he said.

Source: Stuff March 19, 2018 04:28 UTC