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Two years ago, CalMatters housing writer Matt Levin described a factory in Vallejo that was building housing modules that could quickly — and relatively inexpensively — be assembled into multi-story apartment houses. Levin described the factory as more resembling an automobile assembly line than a construction site. “They build one floor approximately every two and a half hours,” Larry Pace, co-founder of Factory OS, told Levin. “It’s fast.” Modular construction offers a potential solution to one of the most vexing aspects of California’s housing crisis...

Why Goldman Sachs Thinks Jumbo Jets Can Teach Modular Housing A Lesson Everyone has heard of modular housebuilding, but not so many have come across digital housebuilding. Now a technology-driven manufacturer of factory-built homes with £75M backing from Goldman Sachs plans to revolutionise housebuilding in the UK by integrating more tech into the construction process. The hope is that skills learned in the high-cost world of aircraft manufacture can help speed up modular housing. The appeal for Goldman Sachs, and the other investors now eyeing opportunit...