“Leading world-class offsite transformation”
CATALYST OFFSITE SERVICES
Plan of high-volume structural panelization facility showing location of machinery, movement of materials and finished product
Offsite construction is at a tipping point.
Demand is unprecedented ......is your company ready?
Catalyst Offsite delivers the expertise, discipline and tools required to develop, integrate, accelerate and succeed at precision, offsite construction
- Peer review
- Factory planning
- Growth planning
- Design department planning (DfMA implementation)
- Component libraries, product rationalization and simplification
- "Single Source of Truth" parametric modeling implementation
- Equipment specification and sourcing
- Factory equipment design and fabrication
- Jig and fixture design and fabrication
- Supply chain optimization
- IP opportunity proposals
- Product offsite readiness
Our Clients
- Companies currently providing, or planning to provide offsite manufacturing services, who need assistance with operational benchmarking, factory planning, staffing plans, setup.
- Offsite manufacturers who lack internal DfMA capability and who want to refresh their product offering and / or production process
- Offsite manufacturers who feel that "they could be doing better" and need to boost productivity, precision, the value of the product, etc.
- Product suppliers who wish to accelerate the readiness of their products for use in offsite construction.
3D model of proposed panel production fixture
Completed low-cost, re-configurable, non-conductive fixture for spot-welded panel production
Detail of moveable location and clamping assemblies on CNC-machined location deck
Detail of structural spot welds on finished product
Parasolid model of full-room WC module for The Bow, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, courtesy Feature Walters. DfMA of module frame, assembly methods, hoisting platform led by Catalyst Offsite CTO Julian Bowron
Welding fixture for families of complex structural aluminum components
Full-scale checking fixture built with standardized, multi-purpose support frames
Completed components in checking fixture
CATALYST OFFSITE provides practical, targeted, technical and organizational solutions to simplify and accelerate offsite adoption
- Insight
Ask questions, study and synthesize the existing status and goals.
What is your market?
What are the technical and commercial challenges?
Where are you positioned?
What existing assets need to be integrated? (factories and equipment).
Build a proforma for the company.
- Structure
Propose a physical and organizational setup.
Put in place a design process / Create a Single Source of Truth working environment.
Factory.
Fixtures.
Equipment.
Production management.
Use of IP.
- Discipline
We sensitively guide and enforce
Continuous improvement
Ongoing innovation and IP development.
Projects can be scoped as planning only, or planning integrated with implementation.
Completed project, a 77-ton, seamless, aluminum structural frame for an atrium artwork, Conrad Hilton, NYC , NY, USA
CATALYST OFFSITE PRODUCTS
CATALYST OFFSITE has developed and licensed a suite of offsite construction technologies that radically improve the speed, ease and safety of modular building assembly
Products
CATALIFT
Halos and hoisting rigs, including the "Drone halo" semi-autonomous hoisting rig
CATAMEP
Self-locating, self-sealing MEP connections
CATAFIX
Autonomous, powered, module locking system
Contact us for more information, or to add your innovative offsite-compatible product to this list!
CG-controlled, positive-docking hoisting platform for whole-room modules in action during a rare daytime lift
What can CATALYST OFFSITE do for you?
Before: View of new modular plant on day of occupancy
After 3 months : Setup complete, production underway
Moving a 10-ton, glass-and-granite-lined WC module on the working floor of a 60-story tower using air bearings