The world of luxury goods has been slow to embrace sustainable practices, but Audemars Piguet is part of a new wave of Swiss watchmakers looking to buck the trend. The company has recently unveiled its new modular workshop in Le Locle, Switzerland, dubbed the Manufacture des Saignoles, with another facility [...]
As legends in the condiment game, Heinz don't often tinker with a winning recipe – but that’s not stopping them from adopting a greener approach to their famed packaging. Taking to the iconic Ketchup bottle, the brand has teamed up with eco-friendly packaging experts Pulpex to design and develop a [...]
The stats are in! Following the delivery of 272 modules for the Centres for National Resilience in Melbourne and Brisbane, Modscape is elated to announce that just 9.53% of the project’s construction waste went to landfill. In other words, 90.47% of all waste was recycled! This is great result for [...]
They wouldn’t look out of place in a Disney film, but these eye-catching dwellings in the Austrian woodlands beautifully display a host of real-world sustainability solutions. Known simply as 'Bert', these tubular treehouses were designed by architecture studio Precht, and were assembled using prefabricated components made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) [...]
Inspired by the rapid evolution of medical science and healthcare, Qatar-based OMA and Squint/Opera have released a prototype for a low-rise hospital that explores the potential of modularity. Designed by OMA together with BuroHappold, the prototype is part of research for the Al Daayan Health District Masterplan, which encompasses the [...]
Japanese designers aren’t afraid to shake things up, and that innovative ethos also extends to the construction of the nation’s earthquake-resistant buildings. Approximately 1500 quakes strike the Land of the Rising Sun each year so, naturally, local architects and builders are forced to keep resilience front-of-mind when working on any [...]
The global modular construction industry is predicted to be worth approximately US$153.7 billion by 2027, growing at a whopping CAGR of 6.4%. The forecast comes courtesy of a recent report, which attributes a large portion of the growth to the expansion of modular in the Asia-Pacific region which, of course, [...]
Scandinavia has long been admired for its innovation and design, and it’s quickly adding sustainability to that list. Cleaning up what is traditionally one of the world’s most high-emission industries, cities like Oslo (Norway), Helsinki (Finland), and Copenhagen (Denmark) are leading the Scandinavian charge towards zero-carbon construction – and modular [...]
With a country surrounded by water, it’s no wonder that the great Australian dream of house ownership can quickly extend to thoughts of a beach house. And with endless childhood memories of summers spent by the beach – swimming, sunbaking and playing sports – many of us are prone to [...]
