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ensures that those on the construction presents considerably fewer risks for safety is of utmost importance, workers
site, as well as a project’s eventual accidents and other liabilities. There are are subjected to weather-related
tenants are less likely to be exposed strict factory processes and procedures conditions, changing ground conditions,
to weather-related health risks. Also, that protect the worker from on-the-job wind and other crew members who are
an indoor construction environment injury. At a construction site, although at the site.

THE MODERN MODULAR a framing hammer.
Every component has been figured out; where in North
America windows are essentially stapled into place from
the exterior, these windows are installed with adjustable
fasteners so that the window can be levelled perfectly and
at the end of its useful life can be removed and replaced –
from the inside. It’s designed for deconstruction. Similarly,

© Randek
Lindbäcks , a 90 year old company in northern Sweden, is
truly taking modular construction to new heights, cranking
out apartments, condos, student housing and seniors
buildings a rate of twenty units per week. The modules are
4150 wide [13’-7”] and optimally 8950 [29’-4”] long. The
modules look superficially like they are coming out of North
American factories, but it is a very different product.
The level of automation in the factory is way beyond anything
you see in North America, where framing is done in factories
much like it is done in the field. Here it is “screen to machine” © Lindbäcks Group AB, Sweden
– wood is fed into giant patented machines that feed, align
and fasten the framing, to any level of complexity. There the wiring is all fished through flex conduit so it is modifiable
are no drawings and no tape measures; it’s all automatic, and upgradeable.
cranking out a wall every seventeen
30 minutes, including windows (in fact the
windows are laid down and the wall framed
around them) and insulation.
It is all automated and industrialized like
most modern industrial production in every
industry except housing, which is still in the
last century. Swedish toolmaker Randek has
automated the entire process; compare the
results out of this to a guy with a nailgun or
© Screw adjustment of window

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