--- title: Every great idea has its time…and this is modular construction’s moment description: It pays to look forward in these rapidly changing times…and there’s no better example than Global Construction. image: https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Untitled%20design%20(3)-Oct-11-2023-11-53-18-4937-AM.png --- [Skip to content](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/every-great-idea-has-its-time-and-this-is-modular-constructions-moment-1#main-content) [![Modulex Logo PNG](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Red%20Ribbon%20-%202022/Modulex%20-%20In/Modulex%20Logo%20PNG.svg "Modulex Logo PNG")](http://redribbon.co) - [About Us](http://www.modulexglobal.com/about-us) - [Technology](http://www.modulexglobal.com/technology) - [Franchise](http://www.modulexglobal.com/franchise) - [India Factory](http://www.modulexglobal.com/india-factory) - [News](https://blog.modulexglobal.com) - [Contact Us](http://www.modulexglobal.com/contact-us) - [About Us](http://www.modulexglobal.com/about-us) - [Technology](http://www.modulexglobal.com/technology) - [Franchise](http://www.modulexglobal.com/franchise) - [India Factory](http://www.modulexglobal.com/india-factory) - [News](https://blog.modulexglobal.com) - [Contact Us](http://www.modulexglobal.com/contact-us) - [![Group (2)](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Group%20(2).svg) Introduction](https://www.modulexglobal.com/about-us#intro) - [![Team](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Team.svg) Team](https://www.modulexglobal.com/about-us#team) - [![Values](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Values.svg) Values](https://www.modulexglobal.com/about-us#values) Driven by an experienced management team, Modulex is a UK-based ConstrucTech business delivering 'Modular Buildings 2.O' [Learn More ![long-text](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Modulex-In-2022/images/module-icons/long-arrow.svg)](http://www.modulexglobal.com/about-us-old) - [![Group (2)](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Group%20(2).svg) Introduction](https://www.modulexglobal.com/technology#tech-intro) - [![Key Features-1](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Key%20Features-1.svg) Key Features](https://www.modulexglobal.com/technology#tech-Key-Features) - [![Process](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Process.svg) Process](https://www.modulexglobal.com/technology#tech-process) - [![FAQ's](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/FAQ.svg) FAQ's](https://www.modulexglobal.com/technology#tech-FAQ) Our proprietary technology is a Modern Method of Construction, which entails the construction of 3D volumetric steel modular buildings. 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[Learn More ![long-text](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Modulex-In-2022/images/module-icons/long-arrow.svg)](http://www.modulexglobal.com/franchise) - [![Terms](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Terms.svg) Investor Update](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/investor-update) [Get in touch ![long-text](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Modulex-In-2022/images/module-icons/long-arrow.svg)](http://www.modulexglobal.com/contact-us) ![](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hubfs/Untitled%20design%20(3)-Oct-11-2023-11-53-18-4937-AM.png) ### Every great idea has its time…and this is modular construction’s moment October 11, 2023 3 minute read All radical concepts have their moment, and after a sustained period of resurgence, Modular Construction is on the threshold of a game-changing breakthrough. Demand for modular technologies has tripled in the last five years ([www.modular.org](http://www.modular.org)). We’re currently living through a perfect storm of cutting-edge construction metrics, set to place dinosaur construction firmly on its back: no more bricks and mortar muddles, concrete girdled waste, rusting steelwork, and clogged up supply chains: everything, in short, that’s consistently made last century construction look exactly what it is: the biggest single contributor to industrial waste on the planet.   So, let’s make no bones about it anymore, and as Bob Dylan most assuredly said it more eloquently, *the times are changing…*   Across the Globe, more and more Governments and private sector agencies are turning to Modular Construction as a platform for delivering affordable homes, offices, hospitals and schools: everything we need to meet the core demands of these millennial times. And, in particular, those same governments and private agencies are recognising, more than ever before, that this isn’t any time to revive the risk-averse, stuck-in-the-mud mindset that caused, for example, the cancellation of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of **HS2** last week…No, we need more major infrastructure projects, not less, and with 1.6 Billion of our fellow citizens currently either homeless or living in severe housing needs worldwide ([www.oecd.org](http://www.modular.org)), we need more affordable housing too…that goes without saying (but I’m going to tell it anyway).   In short, construction projects need to get with the times, work with emerging technologies (not against them), and be ready to deliver with a greater focus on the societal and environmental demands of our rapidly evolving times.   Because all those dinosaur developers were never under any pressure to innovate workable solutions to labour shortages (particularly those generated by COVID lockdown restrictions), never pressed seriously to deliver on time, let alone on budget, and, for them at least, institutionally predisposed to respond to supply chain constraints by adding a few more smoke-belching trucks to our already congested highways, snaking their polluting way through to inner city building sites.   That’s no way to build a sustainable future for the generations coming after us…nothing like it.   But don’t just take my word for it: since 2018, there has been a 51% increase in demand for modular technologies within the construction sector (see above): previous shortages in skilled labour (exacerbated by the pandemic), are now being naturally accommodated through more localised modular production and pre-assembly platforms; and, perhaps most of all, working to deliver those much-needed buildings (affordable homes, new schools and hospitals, as well as flexible office premises) twice as quickly, and more than 50% less expensively, than old fashioned dinosaur contractors could ever hope to match.   That has to be a good thing…so we should all be grateful Modular has found its moment.   #### Executive Overview There’s usually something new under the Sun (despite opinions to the contrary), and Modular Construction is no exception…   Share: Tags [#News](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/news) [#India](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/india) [#Property](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/property) [#Investment](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/investment) [#Infrastructure](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/infrastructure) [#Real Estate](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/real-estate) [#Economic](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/economic) [#Emerging](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/emerging) [#Fast Economic Growth](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/fast-economic-growth) [#Indian Economy](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/indian-economy) [#Economy](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/economy) [#Growth Market](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/growth-market) [#Red Ribbon](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/red-ribbon) [#Renewable](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/renewable) [#Red Ribbon Asset Management](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/red-ribbon-asset-management) [#Market](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/market) [#investors](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/investors) [#Indian Hospitality Sector](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/indian-hospitality-sector) [#Balanced Portfolio](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/balanced-portfolio) [#Growth Markets](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/growth-markets) [#Asset Growth](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/tag/asset-growth) ## Related Blogs Feb 16, 2022 [![](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-01.webp?width=596&name=blog-01.webp)](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/soaring-ambitions-and-a-world-away-from-boxes-modular-building-for-modern-times) ## [Soaring ambitions and a world away from boxes…Modular building for modern times](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/soaring-ambitions-and-a-world-away-from-boxes-modular-building-for-modern-times) Apr 16, 2018 [![](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-21.webp?width=596&name=blog-21.webp)](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/meeting-need-with-speed-modular-construction-as-a-key-innovator) ## [Meeting Need with Speed: Modular Construction as a key innovator](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/meeting-need-with-speed-modular-construction-as-a-key-innovator) May 12, 2023 [![Skyscraper](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/AdobeStock_190709567-1.jpg?width=596&name=AdobeStock_190709567-1.jpg)](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/reach-for-the-skies-weve-been-doing-it-for-more-than-a-hundred-years) ## [Reach for the Skies…We’ve been doing it for more than a Hundred Years](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/reach-for-the-skies-weve-been-doing-it-for-more-than-a-hundred-years) Jan 18, 2024 [![](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/big-ben-house-parliament-night-london-united-kingdom%20(1)%20(1).jpg?width=596&name=big-ben-house-parliament-night-london-united-kingdom%20(1)%20(1).jpg)](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/post-covid-property-markets-sustainable-growth-beats-short-term-blips-every-time-01) ## [Post-COVID property markets…sustainable growth beats short-term blips every time](https://blog.modulexglobal.com/post-covid-property-markets-sustainable-growth-beats-short-term-blips-every-time-01) # Got a question for us? ### We'd love to hear from you! - [Homepage](http://www.modulexglobal.com) - [About Us](http://www.modulexglobal.com/about-us) - [News](https://blog.modulexglobal.com) - [Contact Us](http://www.modulexglobal.com/contact-us) Contact Us ###### Head Office: 16 Berkeley Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8DZ, United Kingdom [+44 (0) 20 7183 3710](tel:+44%20(0)%2020%207183%203710) [enquiries.uk@modulexglobal.com](mailto:enquiries.uk@modulexglobal.com) ###### India Factory: A-82, MIDC Industrial Estate, Indapur, Dist Pune 413132, Maharashtra, India [+91 (0) 2111 299 061](tel:+91%20(0)%202111%20299%20061) [enquiries.in@modulexglobal.com](mailto:enquiries.in@modulexglobal.com) ###### Mauritius: Premier Business Center, 10th Floor, Sterling Tower, 14 Poudrière St, Port Louis. 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