This is really fantastic! It's doing something really amazing and important in the realm of architecture and construction that's much needed.
It's weather-agnostic - (certain construction work you just can't do in winter). Bottlenecks are easily controlled: No questions about worrying about different trades (say, the structural steel work, etc) being slow and pushing all other aspects of the entire project behind. It's more predictable, since you have very clear quantifiable markers of progress (what % of units are completely finished?) It cuts down on the costly / cumbersome process of using a hoist during construction, which is expensive and timely since you have to hire specialized labor and get a permit to close off the street.
To use a programming analogy, it's effectively a kind of parallelization or non-blocking i/o, since you can track progress in a reliable, controlled setting, stagger your work, and have many different trades working at once, on different aspects. (Electrician behind schedule on half of the units? You can still have the plumbing crew work on the finished half while bringing more electricians on board.)
Present-day construction is highly linear, mostly single-threaded and filled with bottlenecks everywhere, since it's both a logistical and financial disincentive to hire a trade to come in to do work if there's not enough work for them to do. The contractor pads the schedule to make sure that previous work will be ready for future work. As a result, construction times are longer, less predictable, etc.
Granted, this isn't totally new, but it's really important that prefabrication is getting more visibility and is understood to be the architectural game-changer that it will be in the future.
It's weather-agnostic - (certain construction work you just can't do in winter). Bottlenecks are easily controlled: No questions about worrying about different trades (say, the structural steel work, etc) being slow and pushing all other aspects of the entire project behind. It's more predictable, since you have very clear quantifiable markers of progress (what % of units are completely finished?) It cuts down on the costly / cumbersome process of using a hoist during construction, which is expensive and timely since you have to hire specialized labor and get a permit to close off the street.
To use a programming analogy, it's effectively a kind of parallelization or non-blocking i/o, since you can track progress in a reliable, controlled setting, stagger your work, and have many different trades working at once, on different aspects. (Electrician behind schedule on half of the units? You can still have the plumbing crew work on the finished half while bringing more electricians on board.)
Present-day construction is highly linear, mostly single-threaded and filled with bottlenecks everywhere, since it's both a logistical and financial disincentive to hire a trade to come in to do work if there's not enough work for them to do. The contractor pads the schedule to make sure that previous work will be ready for future work. As a result, construction times are longer, less predictable, etc.
Granted, this isn't totally new, but it's really important that prefabrication is getting more visibility and is understood to be the architectural game-changer that it will be in the future.