Posted Feb 2, 2012, 5:45 AM
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CNN report....(check link)
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/01...going-modular/
High-rise housing going modular
Feb 1, 2012
Quote:
It's an idea that has the potential to revolutionize the construction industry: Use prefabricated modules to build more than 6,000 housing units. If the real estate development firm Forest City Ratner is able to turn the idea into a reality, the firm will build the tallest modular construction building in the world, a 32-story residential tower in Brooklyn, New York
..."I think we figured out a way to do this," said structural engineer David Farnsworth. He and his colleagues at the design and engineering firm ARUP spent two years researching and developing ways to build a high-rise modular building.
"The first challenge that we had to overcome was how can we make a modular system that can be built at height and withstand the wind loads," Farnsworth said. "You don't want the building to be moving too much in the wind that people feel it and then they get sick."
While the centerpiece, an 18,000 seat NBA arena that will be the new home for the Nets, is nearing completion, the rest of the 22-acre site is largely quiet. Forest City Ratner’s director of construction, Bob Sanna, believes modular construction will change that.
"We were determined to find a way ... that we can develop a building type that had a little bit more predictability, a little bit more cost certainty in the delivery mechanism," Sanna said.
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