Saltair Featured in Latest HIA Article on the Future of Prefab and Modular Housing
For Saltair, being featured in the article reinforces its commitment to delivering high-quality, compliant modular housing solutions that respond to the needs of today’s market, without compromise.
The article, The Pre-Fab Conversation, highlights how modern offsite construction methods are helping improve build certainty, quality control and delivery timeframes, while meeting all regulatory and compliance requirements. Saltair’s Managing Director, Steve Bridger, was featured as an industry voice, sharing insight into why factory-built modular construction continues to gain momentum.
Based in Queensland, Saltair delivers full turnkey modular housing solutions and was recently awarded Innovation in Housing at the 2024 HIA-TRUECORE Steel Sunshine Coast/Wide Bay Housing Awards, recognising its leadership in this space.
Steve believes the key advantage of modular construction is the ability to remove many of the variables that traditionally disrupt building programs.
“As we all know, you can have the perfect program in building, but the minute one of your tradies doesn’t turn up, your whole program’s gone haywire,” he says. “It’s weather, it’s safety, it’s the quality of the product. Half of that quality is really because you’re not exposing it to the weather.”
By shifting much of the construction process into a controlled factory environment, Saltair is able to improve consistency, safety and oversight throughout the build. Homes can be inspected multiple times a day during manufacture, allowing issues to be identified and resolved early - well before installation onsite.
“In the factory, homes under construction are getting inspected five times a day rather than once a fortnight,” Steve explains. “That level of oversight makes a significant difference to the finished result.”
The HIA article also addresses ongoing misconceptions around compliance and quality in modular housing, something Steve is keen to clarify.
“Properly manufactured Australian modular conforms in all respects with the National Construction Code,” he says. “But a lot of people don’t understand that. Modular housing is simply another form of innovation that has been evolving within the construction industry for decades.”
As the HIA notes, prefab and modular construction offers clear benefits including faster build times, reduced waste and improved certainty, making it an increasingly viable solution for residential, tourism, and multi-unit developments across Australia.
Read the full HIA feature here: The Pre-Fab Conversation – https://hia.com.au/Our-industry/Housing/Products-and-Innovation/2025/12/The-pre-fab-conversation
Learn more about prefab and modular construction from HIA: https://hia.com.au/our-industry/prefab-and-modular-construction