The Contruction Tech for Architecture to Enable Real-Time Rebuilds & Save Millions
A software-driven modular approach is reshaping how healthcare, education and workplace environments are built, adapted and reused with real-time flexibility and precision.
In this conversation, Benjamin Urban explains how DIRTT is pushing past traditional prefab and treating buildings as dynamic systems. Powered by a proprietary software platform, DIRTT connects design, pricing and manufacturing in one environment, giving owners and project teams real-time visibility and control. The result is predictable timelines, cost certainty and fewer trade dependencies.
The focus on Design for Disassembly sets DIRTT apart. Spaces are built to be reconfigured, not torn apart, allowing hospitals, schools and offices to evolve without shutting down operations. Healthcare teams can repurpose treatment rooms in hours instead of months. Education environments can shift layouts to support new technology and changing curriculum. Offices can scale, subdivide or modernize without starting over.
With lead times as fast as 10 days and plug-and-play installation, DIRTT provides a path to lower labour demands, reduced waste and rapid adaptability. In an industry facing shrinking margins, rising labour shortages and increasing performance expectations, it offers a practical blueprint for continuous change rather than costly cycles of demolition and rebuild.