Welcome
For Educators
A framework for preparing students for a construction industry organized around products, platforms, and production systems.
The field is hiring faster than anyone is teaching. No common bar yet says who is ready.
Offsite construction is growing from a durable trend into its own discipline. The jobs are arriving. The programs to fill them are scattered, new, and uneven. No shared curriculum defines what a graduate should know. No accreditation tells an employer which program to trust. A student cannot signal quality, and a dean cannot prove it.
Two things close that gap
A common curriculum gives programs a tested foundation. A peer accreditor gives graduates a portable, recognized credential. CfOC and the Accreditation Board for Offsite Construction Education are building both.
ABOCE is a new, independent, peer-based accreditor for offsite-construction education. It is being built the way credible accreditors are built. The people who write the criteria are kept separate from the people who decide accreditations. No firm holds a privileged position. A program that earns ABOCE accreditation will carry a mark an employer can trust.
The model curriculum is in advanced development. CfOC’s Senior Research Fellows began it sixteen months ago and presented it at the inaugural symposium. Its final shape now waits on ABOCE’s first Conditions for Accreditation, so the curriculum and the credential align from the start. This is the moment to help build it.
What the Center for Offsite Construction does
CfOC supplies the intellectual foundation the credential rests on. The work proceeds in four steps:
- Name the shift, so a program knows what it is preparing students to lead.
- Map what it requires, so that faithful actors’ curriculum covers the field rather than a corner of it.
- Ship the open-source pieces — the curriculum as a model for customization, the shared language of review — for any program to adopt.
- Help early adopters apply them in real, cutting-edge classrooms and real industry-facing accreditation.
Already producing
- ABOCE is incorporated and standing up its independent governance.
- The model curriculum is drafted and was presented at the CfOC’s inaugural symposium.
- The published philosophy and Models of Delivery map give programs a shared language and a finite map of the field.
- A Senior Research Fellows program already convenes the practitioners who teach and shape it.
Two ways to begin
This matters most. Learn what accreditation will ask of your program and what it will signal to employers.
It is in advanced development and built with educators, not handed to them.
The Philosophy essays on this site detail the deeper case. They show why ‘the way we build’ is changing and what it means.