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Modular builds aren't cheap prefab
Clients are asking for prefab - but most builders are still picturing cheap boxes and design limits. This episode clears things up.
Steve Bridger, founder and Managing Director of Saltair Modular, explains how design-led modular delivers good-looking custom outcomes, tighter finishes, and repeatable quality without cutting corners.
We dig into how modular methods can shorten build times, improve productivity, and where modular fits in lifting pressures on housing supply and affordability.
What you can’t debate is that modular is definitely quicker. You can be constructing the apartments at the same time that the footings are going on on site.Steve Bridger, founder and Managing Director of Saltair Modular
About Stephen Bridger
Steve Bridger is the founder and Managing Director of Saltair Modular, a progressive design-and-build company redefining modular housing along Australia’s east coast. With a background spanning construction management and residential development, Steve has led Saltair Modular to challenge long-held perceptions about prefabrication.
His team designs and manufactures architecturally refined modular homes that are sustainable, transportable, and built to the same standards or higher than traditional site construction.
By blending technology, craftsmanship, and logistics innovation, Saltair Modular is proving that modular isn’t a shortcut; it can be a smarter, faster, and cleaner way to build.
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