Industrialized Construction Innovation

NREL leverages the benefits of industrialized construction—higher-quality buildings, faster construction timelines, improved productivity, increased technology integration, and labor cost savings—to enable cost-effective strategies for energy efficiency, integrated grid-interactive controls, and renewables in retrofit and new construction projects.

There is a growing need globally to build and upgrade the building stock to be affordable, energy-efficient, and resilient. The United States can emerge as an international leader in this space through research and development (R&D).

NREL's Industrialized Construction Innovation research area focuses on R&D of industrialized energy efficiency retrofits and new construction at scale. The scope of work includes whole-building level as well as subassemblies of components, pods, panels, and volumetric modules. NREL researchers draw synergies between capabilities such as design for manufacturing and assembly, process optimization, construction and retrofit technology, digitization, and data analytics to influence the improvement and production of buildings to increase performance, enhance energy efficiency, and reduce embodied carbon.

NREL seeks interest from the building retrofit and new construction sectors to collaborate on process and product innovation through optimized improvements in industrialized construction.

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Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory