Baltimore Modular (BMOD)
Baltimore Rebuilds Baltimore.
Rebuilding Baltimore and our region through systems-based approaches to industrialized construction
Who we are
Catalyst & Hub
Baltimore Modular (BMOD) is a catalyst and hub for industrialized construction with the focus on Industrialized Housing Delivery (IHD), adapted for scattered-lot infill, vacancy reuse and rehabilitation, and existing homeowner stabilization.
Baltimore is our motherboard: rather than displace or replace, we develop standardized interfaces linking existing conditions and stakeholders with industrialized housing products.
How BMOD works
Serving Both the Ecosystem and Project Teams
BMOD puts its expertise in integrating design with manufacturing to work through six activities, and each activity has two sides.
Cultivating the ecosystem
Systems-Building Activities
BMOD serves to cultivate our regional industrialized construction ecosystem through six distinct but overlapping activities that build systems-based solutions.
See the six activities →Supporting each project
Systems-Based Services
Our six core services apply systems-based solutions to individual projects. BMOD serves as System Integrator to community organizations, developers and homeowner stabilization programs. Owners contract with architects, manufacturers and builders.
See the six services →Start here
How we can work together
Rebuilding Baltimore takes residents, builders, researchers, government and funders working as one ecosystem. Start with the door that fits you.
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Residents & homeowners
Rebuilding should start with the people already here. Tell us what your home and your block need.
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Community organizations
Bring your neighborhood’s priorities to BMOD’s workshops and pilot planning.
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Developers & CDOs
Talk with us about pilots, demand aggregation and existing-conditions assessment for infill and rehab.
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Manufacturers & builders
Help shape a modular product platform for Baltimore’s rowhouses and a local microfactory.
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Researchers
Collaborate on existing-conditions data, supply chains, workforce and policy research.
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Government
Work with us to streamline permitting, codes and zoning for industrialized housing across the region.
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Funders
Choose what you fund: pilot-ready projects, or the systems-based approach of BMOD’s six hub activities that lets projects scale.
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Not sure where you fit?
Send us a note and we’ll connect you with the right person.
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The BMOD Hub
Cultivating the Ecosystem: Systems-Building Activities
BMOD serves to cultivate our regional industrialized construction ecosystem through six distinct but overlapping activities that build systems-based solutions.
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Impact
Build a shared regional vision and goals for IHD with agencies, community groups and housing advocates; convene, educate, and assist with policy.
Outcomes: a collaboration framework, a homeowner stabilization plan and a pilot plan for State recognition of the future NIBS–MOD X certification.
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Design
Refine, with architecture and manufacturing partners, a product platform of interchangeable modules for scalable new infill, retrofit, and homeowner stabilization.
Outcomes: pilot-ready standard unit configurations, new and retrofit, based on a product platform.
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Make
Make Baltimore a city of makers: attract manufacturers with a predictable demand pipeline and less friction in starting a for-profit microfactory here, and cultivate the regional fabricators who supply them.
Outcomes: a microfactory feasibility plan and a connected network of regional manufacturers and fabricators.
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Develop
Advance frameworks for modular teams, including predevelopment tools; pooled owner groups for collective, large-scale orders; and streamlined existing-conditions processes.
Outcomes: friction-reducing tools for emerging developers, and aggregated orders that give owners the advantages of scale.
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Work
Connect training organizations with the IHD ecosystem, so training matches the 21st-century skills needed.
Outcomes: training partnerships, informed by manufacturers and Morgan State, that match the work.
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Augment
In development
Researching, with partners, how AI agents could support the other five activities with parcel, finance, permitting and manufacturer data, then piloting them and putting them in service.
Outcomes: tested pilot agents and a shared public and manufacturer knowledge base.
The need
An interconnected crisis
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11,481
vacant buildings in Baltimore City
Source: Baltimore City DHCD, September 2026
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21,620
vacant lots in Baltimore City
Source: Baltimore City DHCD, September 2026
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1,677
older residents waiting for City home-repair help
Source: Baltimore City DHCD testimony to City Council, May 2026
The path
Building credibility, stage by stage
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Planning
EPA grant complete — concept platform, pilot design, hub & workforce research.
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Pilot
Retrofit + infill, priced factory- vs. site-built, with CDO, financing & team.
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Microfactory
A manufacturing partner drawn to Baltimore; local jobs & supply chain.
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Scale & Replicate
Ecosystem: demonstrate → integrate → systematize.
Latest news
Events
Upcoming
Conference session
The Urban Modular Playbook: How Cities are Accelerating and Unlocking Modular Construction for Housing
- Speakers
- Christina D. Long, AIA, with Angela D. Brooks, FAICP, Chief Housing and Urban Development Officer, City of Philadelphia
- Conference
- 2026 National Modular Housing Conference, Modular Home Builders Association, November 16–18, 2026
- When
- Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- Venue
- Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles, Chantilly, VA
Connect
Join the BMOD ecosystem
Tell us who you are and which of BMOD’s activities matter to you, and we will connect you with the right person.
Prefer email? Write to info@BaltimoreModular.org.