Assembly OSM stacked its first building in a single day!!! Why should you care?
The world is in a housing crisis that is being compounded each day by climate change. Densifying housing in cities is the only way we can tackle both, but modular construction (and construction innovation broadly) has almost exclusively skipped over cities as complex as New York, San Francisco, London, Toronto, etc..
It’s because cities are hard...
❄ Each site is unique! With layers of zoning, irregular lots, community needs, existing neighboring buildings, you cannot just have a catalog of buildings or units that we drop down on each site. The site constraints alone force each building to be different.
📏 Regulations are hard and the agencies are sophisticated: With life safety as the top priority, cities have some of the most stringent regulations for safety and transportation. The bar is higher because more is at stake. As it should be.
🏢 Cities are tall. Since you can't build out, cities build up. The technical challenges of stacking are compounded with each floor you add. ** While this project is a jumbo brownstone, we actually used our high rise systems, so it might be the strongest building in all of Fort Greene!**
But just because something is hard, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it; It means the opposite! Solving the seemingly impossible is how we drive change and solve society's big problems.
Assembly proves that:
💞 Customization and standardization are not mutually exclusive: This project is an infill lot in a New York City Historic District. There is not a better demonstration of Assembly's ability to adapt to site constraints than being subject to NYC Landmarks. That's the beauty of our approach (and all the digital tools we've built). Customized to meet the unique site constraints; standardized to drive manufacturing efficiency.
🏘 Community impact: We stacked this building and didn’t even close the road (look at the time lapse, cars go by the whole time)! We had the whole neighborhood out to watch, and the fact that we were up and out of their way in a single day is an incredible feat especially when you are building in dense urban areas.
🌍 Decarbonization: This project is a Passive House designed (LEED on steroids) targeting to drive energy use down by 70%+ and the whole process reduces waste. Fun fact: We bought lunch for the crew, and at the end of the day we couldn’t find a spot to throw out the boxes because there was no dumpster on site. When was the last time you saw a construction site without a dumpster? That's waste reduction right there!
This project is only step one for Assembly. The road to decarbonizing construction and housing our growing population is going to take many more buildings, and we are gearing up to do just that, starting right here in New York City!
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