Modern Methods of Construction program

QBuild’s Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) program is focused on delivering more homes across Queensland in less time.

The MMC approach streamlines the design and delivery of modular housing products by:

  • fast-tracking due diligence and approval processes to engage the market at the earliest opportunity
  • building modern one, two, three and four-bedroom homes in partnership with industry and within controlled factory environments
  • expediting construction times through standardised repeat manufacturing
  • co-timing civil site preparations in parallel with factory manufacturing programs
  • significantly reducing waste, reducing downtime due to injuries and supporting a more stable workforce
  • upskilling both industry and QBuild tradies to ensure a highly skilled workforce is available to deliver a significant pipeline of construction work over the next decade.

Explore the MMC floor plans and register your interest by completing the online enquiry form.

Progress update

MMC uses innovative volumetric, flatpack and kit-of-parts construction techniques developed in partnership with Office of the Queensland Government Architect, and in collaboration with industry suppliers.

MMC homes are:

  • designed for comfort and liveability
  • adaptable to meet the individual needs of our customers.

They will be used:

  • as much-needed social housing in communities with high demand
  • to accommodate essential frontline workers who would otherwise rent privately, impacting local housing supply.

Rapid Accommodation and Apprenticeship Centres (RAAC)

To support our industry partnership in the production of prefabricated homes, there are RAAC facilities at:

  • Eagle Farm and Zillmere (Brisbane)
  • Portsmith (Cairns, Far North Queensland).

Through industry partnerships and on-site completion contracts, the MMC program employs:

  • QBuild tradies and apprentices
  • support staff
  • local workers.

Manufacturing partners

QBuild tradespeople and apprentices manufacture at our 3 RAACs and simultaneously at our suppliers' factories.

To develop the program, we collaborated with 11 MMC suppliers who build homes under a Standing Offer Arrangement:

  • Azura Building Group with Blok Modular
  • Ausco
  • Fleetwood
  • Green Timber Technologies (GTT) with Prime
  • Hutchies Modular
  • ModnPods
  • Modscape
  • Saltair Modular
  • Sigma Build
  • Volo Modular
  • WestBuilt Homes.

To progressively join the MMC program (subject to pipeline demands), 7 additional suppliers were identified through an open tender expression of interest:

  • Asset Cabins and Homes
  • ATCO
  • Hoek Modular Homes
  • Kerdic
  • McHugh Steel
  • Rendine
  • Urbex.