Building the Future – A Conversation with Paul Mills
Paul Mills highlights how DIRTT’s tech-driven modular construction is reshaping educational spaces.
Modular construction and advanced digital infrastructure are redefining how academic environments are built and maintained. By moving fabrication into controlled factory settings and embedding power, data, and device pathways directly into prefabricated assemblies, institutions gain faster installation, reduced disruption, and consistently high quality. This approach supports the compressed schedules and technology demands of modern campuses while enabling more intentional and adaptable learning spaces.
Fiber-optic networks further strengthen this model by delivering the bandwidth, reliability, and reach required for today’s digital learning tools and tomorrow’s emerging technologies. With high capacity and long transmission distances, fiber provides a durable backbone that minimizes the need for recurring infrastructure overhauls. Combined with modular walls that offer accessible pathways and reconfigurable layouts, campuses gain both physical and digital flexibility as pedagogy, technology ecosystems, and space use evolve. Precise integration of AV, IT, security, and wireless systems enables seamless experiences across classrooms, labs, and collaboration spaces. Institutions benefit from greater certainty in cost, schedule, and performance, along with sustainability advantages tied to waste reduction, reuse, and long-term adaptability.
DIRTT expert Paul Mills joins Craig Park to discuss how these innovations are shaping the next generation of academic design.