REMOTE BUILDING and prefabrication is playing a major part . The 28-acre mixed-use development , which has been estimated at $ 2.5 billion , is a public-private partnership between the Port of San Francisco , the San Francisco Giants and commercial real estate company Tishman Speyer .
Prefabricated building systems firm Clark Pacific worked with the owners and design firms Henning Larsen , MVRDV , Studio Gang and WORKac to come up with a prefabrication solution that would also achieve the aesthetic of the project , which will feature natural and iconic California scenes on the exteriors .
Jim Lewis , director of sales at Clark Pacific , said the kind of early collaboration between the prefabrication and Mission Rock teams was similar to how the company worked on the Apple ‘ spaceship ’ headquarters in
Cupertino , California , necessary to achieving a design-prefab balance .
Using prefab on such high-profile projects , Lewis said , should help debunk the misperception that prefab elements are always utilitarian . “ It ’ s totally changing that ,” he said . “ You can do iconic architecture and do it prefabricated . You just have to start early … it ’ s a game changer .”
The steel prefabricated buildings market expects to observe an incremental growth of approximately $ 3 billion by 2026 , according to ReportLinkers . com . Steel reframes observe high adoption in prefabricated buildings due to lightweight , ductility , and recyclability , and these reframes are witnessing high acceptance in the construction sector as they can absorb wind turbulence and offer high elasticity during earthquakes . constructionglobal . com 45