Virtually every industry seeks continuous improvement, often focused on processes and people. When there are multiple teams of players on a project, it can be a tangle of lost quality, efficiency, and effectiveness. Whether it’s a sub-contractor that has different crews or a crew whose…
Most contractors, construction managers, and design teams recognize the inherent advantages that factory-built modular construction offers in terms of quality, schedule, and overall risk management. What many building owners are coming to realize are the benefits factory construction provides when upgrading systems in occupied buildings….
One important aspect of Off-Site Construction is the ability to inspect and track the progress of systems being designed and built in a factory environment, in parallel with on-site activities. As part of our drive to accelerate the adoption of Off-Site Construction, Epsilon has been…
Anyone familiar with modular construction, or our previous Epsilon posts for that matter, is aware of the typical value proposition: compressed schedule, cost certainty, and reduction in field labor. These attributes have been and will continue to be strong drivers in the proliferation of modular…
A short time ago we showcased photos from this final QA assembly and noted that one of the major benefits of Off-Site Construction is the QA that takes place at the Epsilon manufacturing facility. This gives the client a walk-through and pre-delivery inspection opportunity, and…
A clear benefit of Off-Site Construction is the minimal time installation and commissioning takes compared to on-site construction. This time-lapse video provides a glimpse at the overall assembly time of an Epsilon central utility plant at a US-based medical center, compared to the rest of…
You may look at this picture of a modular prefabricated utility plant adjacent to a field-built structure and ask, “Why didn’t the client simply add on to the brick building?” Beyond the standard drivers (compressed schedule, cost certainty, and reduced field labor), there can be…
