Modular homes are a smarter and faster approach towards building a new house. These types of homes are manufactured and designed in factories, rather than actual construction site. The companies engaged in making such residential units use quality material to ensure longer operational life. Different sections of the home that is built in factories are known as 'modules' or 'boxes'. These are manufactured using 'jigs' or 'patterns', wherein all the joints and corners are square.

Modular homes are much better than residential options constructed on sites using cement and brick. The workers engaged in manufacturing traditional homes on site are dependent on each other, thus, slight error by a worker will affect the entire plan and fail to fulfil the demands of the client. However, modular homes have organised production schedule, where every requirement of the client is taken into consideration by the manufacturer.

The home builder uses machines and tools to carry the construction work within the factory premises, resulting in precision of the final output. Different parts of the homes are built by the engineers at the production unit and thereafter, are installed at the final location. Manufacturers use heavy cranes to transport and assemble these manufactured parts, which require a large workforce. However, the workforce required in this process is still less that the manpower that might have been engaged in the construction of traditional homes. Moreover, to ensure flawless output, the entire assembling process of the modular homes is monitored by builders. It is believed that the strong foundation of these homes minimise the effect of earthquake to a great extent.

Such homes provide several benefits to their owners, over the homes constructed on site. These benefits include no delays in construction, no effect of adverse weather conditions and fulfilment of accurate designs demanded by the owner. Furthermore, the buildings designed by the modular home builder results in great savings as these homes are affordable and cost-effective. Moreover, the builder also performs quality checks and strength measures to ensure that these houses are sturdy and offer value for money. These houses demand less maintenance as compared to site constructed homes. As per the demand of customers, various companies offer customised solutions to the clients, with respect to material, design, quality and state-of-the-art facilities.

The home builder ensures that the homes are built in compliance with the industry determined norms. Furthermore, industry analysts speculate that the modular homes save around 10 to 30 per cent cost in comparison to homes constructed on site.