Joshua McShanog, Business Development for T&M Construction speaks with Offsitedirt.com host Audree Grubesic about modular construction. He explains their construction process for set and stitch, along with logistics for volumetric and modular construction projects for multifamily buildings. This process starts at the very beginning of the project. These systems are crucial for the project to be connected together correctly for a fully finished product. Set and Stitch is one

Audree Grubesic, Host of Offsite Dirt meets Connor Malloy, College Professor of Trades and Building at George Brown College in Canada. New advances in adding building science in addition to program basics of construction, building enclosures, framing, and residential construction. According to his students, Connor really does go out of his way to make his classes as beneficial as possible. It's obvious that he takes pride in teaching the next generation of tradespeople to be

OffSite Dirt host Audree Grubesic talks with Thomas Nichols, a high school shop class teacher. Thomas helps his students build high-performance houses. Thomas was a student that went into teaching including Matt Blomquist, trades instructor at Taylorville, Illinois High School. The introductory shop class starts with basic tool identification and then moves to woodworking projects and mechanical drafting programs before moving onto building projects outside the school. "It i

By Mark Wille Twenty neighborhoods welcomed the community to 150 destinations at no cost on October 15 - 16, 2022 in Chicago. Lawndale, Chinatown, Humboldt and Avondale to name a few of the existing neighborhoods. If you like cool photos scroll to the end (wink). Back in 2011, is where this all started. I worked with this group to showcase our facility on Pulaski just north of Fullerton. GreenDepot aka GreenMaker was the home for over 36 presentations in 48 hours. Grass Ro

By Mark Wille On a warm summers evening early in 2020 I got a call from Steven Baczek, my architect friend. We were both too tired to sleep. We started talking about a project he was drawing for a town called Taylorville, Illinois. This town has a high school construction program for the Building Trades. They build a Student Built home for their community. We reviewed the plans, and he introduced me to Matt Blomquist. https://www.instagram.com/build_learn_teach/ https://ww

Automation in factories has been slowly progressing. Cars are made in factories, HVAC units are made in factories and now housing is shiftin

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