Modular building floor plans have come a long, long way since the days of the basic prefabricated rectangle. The industry has many years of experience now, and new methods, materials and standards have removed the earlier constraints.

Architects and designers now create plans and configure modular space with the same freedom as for a bricks-and-mortar building. Today, a modular building might be a bullet-proof security kiosk, a two-story modular in-plant office, or an 11,500 sf sales center.

Gone, too, are the drab exteriors of the early years. Any exterior that stick-built construction uses, modular buildings can replicate.

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Experts today estimate that virtually every American has been inside a modern modular building - and few realize it. This is a testament to the enormous strides made by the modular building industry over the past 25 years. The untutored eye can no longer tell "stick-built" from modular construction. But it wasn't always so.

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