After a brief pause, we’re thrilled to relaunch our Offsite Construction Series for 2025 where we highlight modular factory owners and their companies. What better way to kick things off than with a conversation with Tim Torpey, General Manager from B&T Manufacturing. Based in Rapid City, South Dakota, B&T Mfg. is quietly but powerfully making waves in the offsite construction world.
For the past decade, the Unico System has been on a transformative journey toward lean manufacturing—one that has redefined efficiency, improved productivity, and reshaped company culture. At the heart of this evolution is Steve Intagliata, who recognized the inefficiencies of traditional batch-and-queue manufacturing and sought a better way forward.
Modular construction is rapidly transforming the industry by offering solutions to rising costs, labor shortages, and demands for speed and sustainability. This blog explores key factors fueling this shift: accelerated project timelines, improved quality and consistency through factory production, significant waste reduction, and enhanced design flexibility driven by technology like BIM and AI. Modular building is reshaping the future of construction.
In today’s world of energy-conscious design and rising expectations around comfort and indoor air quality, building a better home isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. Whether you're a homeowner, builder, or designer, understanding the fundamentals of air tightness, insulation, and ventilation is the key to delivering high-performance buildings that are efficient, comfortable, and resilient.
In recent years, modular construction has moved from niche status to center stage, offering solutions to many of the most pressing challenges facing the construction industry today. Rising material costs, labor shortages, and increasing demands for speed and sustainability have all helped drive the adoption of modular approaches. As construction companies search for ways to build smarter and faster, modular construction is providing a clear path forward.
