reframe

The company that makes them, Reframe, is the latest outfit chasing the construction sector’s forever dream, in which buildings are assembled in factories like computers or cars, saving time and money in a field that everyone agrees requires too much of both.

But this time, says Reframe’s founder Vikas Enti, is different.

One day, Reframe wants to build at a rate of six minutes per square foot.

In April, I visited Reframe’s factory at an industrial park in Andover, Massachusetts.

It struck me as a complex way to complete a repetitive task, but that is part of Reframe’s pitch: This is not an assembly line churning out a thousand identical widgets.