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Posted: September 17, 2025

The Future of Offsite Housing: Pre-Cut Framing “Makes the Cut”

Offsite construction has significant barriers to adoption, including the fact that change is difficult and costly to individual companies, the current industry “infrastructure” does not fully support its mass-market adoption, ingrained thinking in the workforce at worker and management levels, and lack of investment in offsite production capacity. Even still, builders are beginning to explore more offsite construction methods, including roof trusses and pre-cut framing packages as the leading areas of interest.

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Posted: July 30, 2025

AI Adoption Increases Among U.S. Home Builders

While AI has yet to build a home all on its own, the technology has started making significant inroads within the home-building industry. Data from Home Innovation’s most recent Omnibus Survey shows that the majority of U.S. home builders are still in the early stages, but AI adoption is growing quickly.

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