Advantages of the Assembly System

Building Quality

Just as a manufactured airplane is comprehensively superior in quality to one made by a garage hobbyist, Assembly buildings achieve a level of precision and quality in fit, finish, and feel that can’t easily be accomplished by human laborers working with hammers, saws, and tape measures.

Architectural Distinction

Unlike bland and repetitive modular buildings, Assembly buildings are unique, distinctive, and architecturally imaginative.  By employing design and manufacturing software and supply chain capabilities to their fullest potentials, the Assembly system combines repeatability of components and sub-assemblies with customization of building design and appearance, most notably in structural forms, facades, and interior finishes.

Speed

We can go from initial design to building completion in 40-50% less time — under 30 months, rather than 48+. Including convention foundation work and stacking and completion of modules, on-site time can be reduced from 36 months to 18 months.

Carrying Costs

Assembly’s developer-clients slash their carrying costs (land, financing, insurance, on-site security), achieve earlier sales and rentals, and can redeploy their capital into next projects.

Labor Cost

By moving from construction to manufacturing, Assembly significantly reduces the amount of inefficient labor required to deliver a high-quality, architecturally distinctive building.  We eliminate opportunities for human error. No RFI’s, submittals, or shop drawings removes the bureaucracy and miscommunication associated with conventional construction. 

Materials Cost

Increasingly as we scale, Assembly achieves cost savings in building materials through transparent competitive bidding, bulk purchasing, and the elimination of construction waste.

Certainty

With our configuration-to-delivery platform and manufacturing model, Assembly gives clients cost and schedule certainty.

Design-Build Single Point of Contact

Assembly’s design-build contract structure provides a developer/client with a single point of contact for the entire development process, including a feasibility study and zoning analysis, architectural and interior design (including AOR/EOR), supply chain procurement/management/fabrication, assembly, transportation, on-site erection and general contracting work (inclusive of excavation, foundations and a conventionally-built podium), all the way through to substantial completion/TCO and final close-out.  Similar to the benefits and efficiencies of the Assembly design-build manufacturing process as a whole, the single point of contact both streamlines the legal negotiation, drafting and contract maintenance processes, and reduces the law firm costs necessitated by the client holding multiple design, CM/GC, trade and other consulting agreements typically associated with a conventional design-bid-build development and legal framework.     

Regulatory Advantage

Assembly achieves overall regulatory approval for our building system as a system, meaning that individual permits for the buildings that use our system can be obtained in as little as 4 months (rather than the usual 12-18 months).

De-risking Development

For all those reasons, Assembly de-risks building development.  Moreover, Assembly’s platform allows clients and their financial partners to see, in real-time, exactly where the process is, where every dollar of procurement has been spent, where each fabricated component and manufactured sub-assembly is.

Resilience and Sustainability

Built from manufactured components, Assembly buildings are easier to maintain, repair, and upgrade.  We are focused on utilizing greener, more sustainable biomaterials such as mass timber (initially as finishes, but soon as core structural elements) and deploying advanced environmental systems that conserve energy.