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Modular offices are a type of commercial or industrial office space that is prefabricated offsite and is temporary or semi-permanent in nature. Panel Built modular offices utilize a panel system that allows for quick and easy installation into an existing warehouse or manufacturing facility. However,...

A variety of industries from aerospace to public transportation use platforms to help their employees work in tough to reach areas. However, it is very unlikely that the same platform used in both industries. In fact, within every facility, there's likely a variety of different...

Over Panel Built's nearly 25 years in operation, our wall panel systems have grown in popularity with our customers that are looking to install new space into their facilities quickly and affordably. And when it comes to creating a highly controlled environment, our same wall...

Businesses and organizations of all types use prefabricated enclosures both inside and outside of their facilities. These are likely buildings that you see all the time in your day to day life either at work, on your way to work, or even in different places...

For many organizations, security needs can change on a moments notice, and it can be difficult to find the correct tools to always be at the top of their game. For these facilities, just having one fixed guard booth at the front of their facility...

Steel mezzanines are one of our products that we receive the most questions about. There's a variety of design options and code requirements that can oftentimes lead to projects being very technical, especially with customers that are...

A shell space in real estate refers to a space that is bare on the inside. This can be a property of many different types: Industrial buildings, commercial offices, and even a residential apartment. For industrial spaces, a shell space will typically be a building...

Unfortunately, there has been a very real, growing threat of violence against school campuses of all types in recent years. And, there has been a growing effort from school systems and law enforcement as a whole to understand the cause of these violent attacks. However,...

At Panel Built, our modular offices are frequently used in industrial spaces. However, when you picture an industrial office space in your head, it's probably not going to look like the inside of a Google campus. Which is fair. When we think of industrial space,...

Modular Building, by nature, is material and resource efficient. -MBI's "Modular Building and the USGBC's LEED" "Going Green" and protecting the environment is a movement that has become more and more important to companies, organizations, and countries across the globe.  And these groups look to...

One of the biggest benefits Panel Built provides our customers is the flexibility of a custom composite panel system. For those unfamiliar, composite walls refers to a wall system that uses a variety of different material sources. This way, depending on the application, Panel Built...

At Panel Built, one of the biggest issues we help our customers solve is that of limited usable space. It is an issue that all growing companies will run into eventually, and frankly, it's a good thing. But it is a problem that must be...

It's no secret that the modular construction industry has had a growing influence on the way we build today. And moving forward, many consider Modular Construction as the future of the construction industry, being labeled as a possible solution to affordable housing. From towering apartment...

At the Modular Building Institute’s annual conference, World of Modular, Panel Built, Inc. received a first-place award in recognition of one of our modular construction projects!  With Lee Baenninger and Isaiah McPherson in attendance to accept the Award of Distinction, Panel Built took home first...

Panel Built's Modular Wall System was designed with one overarching characteristic in mind, flexibility. The walls system itself is composed of 4 ft wide wall panels that connect to one another via our binder post system. This system allows for your modular office to be...

Panel Built is making an effort to reach out and meet as many industry professionals as we can this year so we will be attending trade shows across the modular construction and material handling industries. So here are a few of the Trade Shows you...

It can be difficult enough to concentrate at work just in an office environment. However, for the men and women that make their living working on a factory floor, there are additional factors at play, impacting their performance and even their health. Noise levels are...

In 1995, our company was founded by brothers Pat and Mike Kiernan. When they founded the company, they started with the construction of pre-manufactured buildings. Today, not only does Panel Built offer the best available modular cleanroom mezzanine, we also offer a complete line of...

Panel Built, Inc. gets requests for ballistic rated, bullet-resistant buildings from companies and organizations in a variety of different industries and sectors. And we are happy that we are able to provide a product that increases the safety of its occupants and provides them with...

Modular construction has become an emerging building technique over the past few decades because of the efficient way it is able to deliver projects. By building a structure in a factory environment, companies are able to streamline the building process by assembling a building in...

Going to trade shows, everyone wants their booth/exhibit to stand out from the competition. Bright displays, flashing lights, give-aways, contests, games... There are a million different ways companies compete to grab people's attention. There are so many of these "attention grabbers" because each exhibit only...

Control rooms typically serve as the focal point of whatever facility they are in. Depending on the facility, a control room can house one to over a hundred different employees, working together towards a common goal. However, depending on the industry, control rooms can have...

Facilities can get more and more crowded and clustered as a company grows.  It is an unfortunate and unavoidable part of running a successful business.   This can be a bittersweet moment for a company as it's a strong signal that you're doing things right. However... If...

With an increasing overall population, as well as an aging one, the United State's healthcare industry is set to keep increasing in size and spending for the foreseeable future.  Currently, the US per capita health spending for 2018 sits close to $12,000, but that figure...

When installing a new mezzanine in your new facility, it is important to ensure safety is one of your top priorities.  As you can read in some of our previous posts, falls are one of the most common causes of injuries in the workplace (part of...

There's one question you have to ask before providing a new space in your facility. Will the conditions inside be suitable for the work being done? Most work environments need some degree of temperature control, and Panel Built's modular system has adapted to suit these...

If there's one thing that is consistent throughout most industrial environments, it's the presence of noise.  Depending on the industry, it can range from a low hum to literally having a jet engine ignite (140 dB!).  If workers are operating in this environment for a...

It’s no secret that the United States has been focusing on keeping our schools as safe as possible.   Over the course of the past 20 years, the National Center for Education Statistics has indicated 8 individual safety measures that schools take to help manage their...

\With another year comes another assortment of fantastic modular construction projects.  And in a world of online shopping and next day deliveries, it is easy to see why modular construction is becoming the preferred project delivery method by many in the construction world.  These modular...

As schools systems expand and new school buildings are being built, the demand for new school construction has been growing and growing.  Whether expanding a current facility or building a new facility altogether, modular construction can provide a few distinct advantages for developing schools.   For...