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Jon Higgins - Vice President, Construction Geoff Baker - Vice President, Project Management
and Americans.” Located in the economic super-hub development emit dramatically lower amounts of
of Shanghai, China, the production facility employs CO2 when modular systems are used because
a talented workforce of up to 500 staff and trades buildings product less waste.
on on-site has developed a vetted network of over
5,000 vendors and suppliers that meet the highest THE STACK ADVANTAGE
designations of North American construction.
Steel framing has risen as the front-runner as the
REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS best and most feasible alternative building materials
for modular housing, and there are many reasons,
Stack’s clients look to modular building to help chief among them is structural strength, aggressive
reach their goal of net-zero carbon projects. Off- timelines, increased quality of construction,
site construction methods offer the opportunity to reduced overall costs and time to fabricate, and
compress costs of net zero energy housing using demonstrated sensitivity to reducing environmental
the advantages of mass production. impacts in contrast to traditional site-built
construction.
Modular construction has the potential to
radically reduce the carbon footprint of the Stack’s High-grade structural steel and North
construction sector. The design, construction American-certified products means clients receive a
and decommissioning phases of a modular unit that is more durable than the competition. “Our
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