Center for Offsite Construction

The Future of Design & Delivery

The open-source infrastructure American construction never built — and the reason housing stays expensive.

For a century, every attempt to industrialize American building has failed on the same missing piece. We have built better factories, and made better products, but neglected the shared, open standards that let thousands of independent builders work as one industry. The Center for Offsite Construction writes that infrastructure — as a public commons, owned by no one, free for anyone to build on.

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CfOC work is built through an ANSI-accredited consensus process with industry organizations like the International Code Council, the Modular Building Institute, and others. We collaborate with a wide variety of Fellows – from DPR, Assembly OSM, FullStack Modular, Green Canopy NODE, and Cloud Apartments.

The Center prides itself on advancing fundable consequential projects and industry products. Here is early proof:

Research roadmap · digital keystone

Configurator file type (.CTO)

Active · Phase 2 · spec v0.2 draft

Seeking $473.4K for the Discovery Phase: a seated governance partner and the requirements report that prescribes the schema.

The digital keystone. Carries the 1220 and 1230 matelines and the UCC legal mateline · everything downstream reads from it

CfOC co-editors: Jason Van Nest · Mathew Ford Host Linux Foundation (JDF) Seeking contributors

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Research roadmap · workforce & education

Accreditation Board for Offsite Construction Education (ABOCE)

Live · standing up operations

Incorporated, launched, and recruiting its board and first schools — the proof that the CfOC sees projects through.

The workforce layer of the roadmap. An independent 501(c)(3) the CfOC co-founded with MBI · operated at aboce.org

CfOC lead: Jason Van Nest Co-founder: MBI Volunteer staff: Jason Van Nest & Matt Ford

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How does the industry measure this potential? You will not find a headline “X% cheaper” figure on this site. None can be defended honestly yet — and sizing that prize is itself one of the Roadmap’s funded deliverables. What we can show you is a finite, open, buildable plan for the systemic fault that makes housing expensive in the first place. A dollar aimed at a systemic fault travels farthest of all.