Vision

Industrialized construction is a rapidly growing, highly durable trend improving the design and delivery of U.S. buildings. The Center for Offsite Construction (CfOC) acts as an epicenter for effective offsite construction practices (including both research practices and education practices) in the New York metro area. The CfOC guides community outreach and industry partnerships to produce standards and to answer the national and international demand for the next generation of offsite professionals, researchers, and teachers.

Mission

• To introduce urgently needed open-source, collaboratively drafted standards, based on project experience, to align industry efforts in the adoption of offsite methods. Then to hand over such standards to the ANSI, ISO, or similar standards organization for growth, maintenance, and versioning.
• To graduate qualified professionals in the field of designing and delivering buildings with offsite methods. To equip those graduates with rigorous knowledge and skills to occupy key jobs in the local, state, federal, and international organizations, as well as in the private sector, in architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and related fields.
• To sponsor and participate in world-class offsite construction research, symposia, and workshops. In doing so, to provide a venue for research activities and endeavors for students, professionals, and peers promoting efficiencies in building practices.

Goals

• Establish well-designed standards that ease collaboration in the field, expand offsite construction markets and product offerings, and promote the wide adoption of offsite construction techniques.
• Improve undergraduate and graduate programs that offer the knowledge of modern industrialized construction methods.
• Design and execute research projects producing data-driven outcomes, industry-focused software, and outside investment—as partnerships, grants, or licensing.

Academic Program Support

In every discipline, the experience born from research, collaboration, and project delivery enriches classroom experiences.

The Center for Offsite Construction staff are research professors and practitioners. They are tasked first with supporting architectural and engineering practices that engage real-world project delivery issues. Then CfOC staff must bring these topics to their teaching—with lively classroom discussions, contemporary collaborative projects, and networking opportunities with fellow students, faculty members, and industry professionals.

The center serves as a New York City hub for these exchanges, where contemporary practitioners of building information modeling (BIM), virtual design and construction (VDC), and manufacturing disciplines engage the U.S. affordable housing crisis, the post-COVID push to convert disused office space, and other urgent applications.

Meet the Team

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Location

Center for Offsite Construction
New York Tech School of Architecture and Design
1855 Broadway - Room 1108
New York City, N.Y. 10023
USA

Support the Center

For more information, read this white paper: "Open Source Connectivity Standards for the U.S. Offsite Construction Industry"

For questions or to support the center, contact Jason Van Nest at jvannest@nyit.edu.