Haskell’s 2019 investment in Bessemer, Ala.-based BLOX may pay off for the contractor as it eyes growth over the next five years. And if Chris Giattina, BLOX’s president, can achieve his lofty ambitions to change construction practices, the construction industry as a whole could have a more complete modular method at its disposal.

Giattina称Blox的构建设计制造方式构造方法,并将其视为对更传统的建筑模型的潜在不满。Haskell COO J.P. Saenz说,Haskell的工作对命名法进行了调整,称该方法称为设计制造 - 由于可以将Blox模块放在一起的相对容易,J.P. Saenz,Haskell COO,Haskell COO表示相对容易。

Founded in 2009, BLOX and its roughly 410 full-time employees manufacture approximately 50 projects per year from a 1-million-sq-ft former railcar factory in Bessemer. Currently, the company has 11 active production lines operating within the Bessemer facility, but expects to add six additional production lines in the fourth quarter of 2020, Giattina says.


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Haskell added committed full-time staff to the partnership, as the two companies work together on some of the contractor’s current health care and religious/cultural projects. BLOX continues to operate independently, delivering modules to its clients using its DMC methodology..

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While Haskell had investigated other prefabrication/modular construction firms, BLOX caught the contractor’s attention because of its diversity of project types and an approach using steel modules instead of the more typical timber-based modules that other firms in the space typically used, Saenz says.

Saenz解释说:“就他们开发的解决方案的质量而言,他们都没有像Blox那样脱颖而出。”此外,该公司在医疗保健项目(Haskell's Core Markets之一)中的经验非常适合。18luck官网

此外,Blox结构将设计师,制造工程师和现场组装人员聚集在一起设计项目,并吸引了Haskell。18luck官网萨恩兹说:“我们始终完全整合了这些资源。”“因此,这有助于使团队迅速团结在一起,因为我们了解了这种方法。”

他公司的DMC Giattinaapproach should enable a less congested job site because it reduces or eliminates the need for craft labor, as modular units are designed to be easily assembled on site by workers with varying skill levels.

Right now, the future looks promising for BLOX and Haskell, says Saenz, with the firms teaming up for a “large global church” project to be delivered overseas.