Last week, MOD X presented key intermediary research findings and facilitated a full-day interactive workshop at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) national headquarters in Washington, D.C. HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) is collaborating with the National Institute of Building Sciences and MOD X to develop an Actionable Strategy for HUD’s Role in Accelerating U.S. Offsite Housing Construction to respond to the dual challenges of housing affordability and climate change. The project has been conducted in three (3) distinct phases: Phase 1 - Evaluating U.S. domestic initiatives in industrialized construction (IC); Phase 2 - Comparing international IC programs in the UK (England + Scotland), Japan, and Sweden; and Phase 3 - Facilitating a series of workshops to analyze and compare domestic and international lessons. The HUD Workshop consisted of two primary parts: (1) MOD X presented key intermediary research findings of the project “HUD’s Current and Future Role in U.S. Offsite Construction for Housing”; (2) three-part thematic breakout sessions during which MOD X gathered valuable data from attendees through a live interview format. The research data from the breakout sessions will be collected, analyzed, synthesized, and presented by MOD X to HUD as part of the third and final workshop planned for April 2024. The outcome of the workshops will provide the basis of a final report to inform HUD and other U.S. federal agencies to support the development of an effective future Actionable Strategy for U.S. Offsite Housing Construction via the development of a national innovation framework. MOD X would like to thank all of the HUD workshop participants and project Key Partners for their insightful contributions including: Solomon Greene | regina gray | Dan Hardcastle | Todd Richardson | Mike Blanford | Jagruti Rekhi | Mark Reardon | Tanaya Srini | Alaina Stern | Meron Habte | Sarah Lee | Teresa Payne | Nicole Green-Catten | Julia Gordan | Cliff Kornegay | David Fleishman | Carlyn Cullen | Kevin Naranjo | Jay Wrobel | Matt Hoffman | Ricki Wells Edward J. – UK (England) | Robert Hairstans – UK (Scotland) | Stephen Good – UK (Scotland) | Susanne Iverus Rudenstam – Sweden | Tomas Carlsson – Sweden | Sofia Hansdotter – Sweden | Céline McHugh – Ireland | Manus O Donnell – Ireland | Daiki Yamashita – Japan | TAKU SASAKI – Japan | Tomoyuki Gondo – Japan | Tetsuji Ando – Japan | Junichiro Takagi – Japan | Masaya Iwamoto – Japan Helena Lidelöw | Sara.Ann Logan AIA, RIBA, NOMA, IIDA | Lucas Toffoli | Mary Tingerthal | Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies | Tyler Pullen | Todd Beyreuther | Grace H. Kim | Dennis Michaud | David Tompos | Ryan Colker | Justin Stewart | Cindy Davis | Jenna Louie | Tom Hardiman, CAE | Christopher Fox, AIA, NCARB, CAPS | Juan Torres Leon Ryan E. Smith | Ivan Rupnik | Tyler Schmetterer #offsite #offsiteconstruction #industrializedconstruction #modular #affordablehousing
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Huge thank you Ryan E. Smith / Ivan Rupnik / Tyler Schmetterer for the invitation to join the HUD workshop last week & meet other likeminded workshop participants united by a passion to enable transformational change around how we deliver better, more sustainable affordable housing solutions using industrialised methods. Enjoyed sharing Scotland’s experiences to date & learning from the US & other international exemplars. Lots of opportunities to continue to collaborate around, & looking forward to doing so over the coming months & years with old friends and the many new ones we made on this trip…👍
An incredible cadre of international experts from industry, government and academia to chart HUDs future in indutrialized construction. Thank you all for coming and giving your time and intellect to help solve housing supply and performance.
Thank you for inviting me to this event! I hope we one day get to say “I was there” when we made real change happen.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate in this amazing event! Very well organized! Grateful to get to know all of you who are passionate about developing affordable housing!
Many thanks for inviting me to participate! And thank you all for great discussions!
Nice work MOD X Ryan E. Smith Ivan Rupnik Tyler Schmetterer
Thank you for a great workshop. I'm looking forward to working with MODX as we prepare the final report.
You guys rock!
Thanks Tom for Posting, I happened to meet with Edward from Home England yesterday at the Tracy Factory. Looking forward to synergies....
Director of the Centre for Advanced Timber Technology at New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering / Professor at Edinburgh Napier University
6moA truly amazing international collaboration. Lots of knowledge exchanged. What MODX in partnership with NIBS brought together was inspiring and will hopefully set the path for offsite and industrialised housing at scale in the USA to tackle the affordable housing need in a sustainable way creating jobs, improving diversity and achieving net zero. Love your work!