Baltimore Modular (BMOD)
Baltimore Rebuilds Baltimore.
Rebuilding Baltimore and our region through Industrialized Housing Delivery
Who we are
Catalyst & Hub
Baltimore Modular (BMOD) strives to be a catalyst and hub for Industrialized Housing Delivery (IHD) efforts across the Baltimore region, adapted for scalable scattered-lot infill construction, 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.
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
Six activities
The BMOD Hub is to be both a physical space and a virtual network for six distinct — but often overlapping — activities.
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Impact
Align regional government, education, industry and community stakeholders around friction-reducing, systems-based strategies.
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Design
Refine, with a manufacturing partner, a modular product platform of interchangeable modules for new infill, retrofit and homeowner stabilization.
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Make
Establish a flexible Baltimore microfactory (2D + 3D systems) within a BMOD innovation hub activating the local supply chain.
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Develop
Advance integrated project delivery frameworks for industrialized housing: predevelopment tools, demand aggregation and streamlined existing-conditions processes.
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Work
Drive industrialized housing workforce development: apprenticeships, technical and professional training, and wraparound services.
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Augment
In development
BMOD is exploring how AI agents could support its other five activities, drawing on public data and our partners’ expertise. Today this is research and planning; we will share what we learn as pilots are tested.
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
Featured project
EPA Region 3 Thriving Communities
A planning grant that funded ecosystem convening, an existing-conditions process taxonomy, a conceptual product platform and rowhouse pilot, microfactory feasibility and workforce research.*
The project is complete, and its final reports have been submitted. BMOD is now exploring how to build on the research and publish it in academic journals.
Three all-stakeholder workshops
- November 12, 2025Workshop 01Watch recording of Workshop 01
- February 19, 2026Workshop 02Watch recording of Workshop 02
- March 19, 2026Workshop 03Watch recording of Workshop 03
* For the project titled “Baltimore Modular (BMOD)”, Christina D. Long, Ethan Cohen, Brent Sturlaugson, and Kamalesh Panthi served as subcontractors to the Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation (MCCEI) under the EPA Thriving Communities Grant administered through Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI). In this capacity, BMOD team members provided leadership on research, design, technology, and community and stakeholder engagement in support of the BMOD project, which focuses on offsite construction strategies for housing revitalization and workforce development in Baltimore.
The path
Building credibility, stage by stage
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Year 0
Planning
EPA grant complete: concept platform, pilot design, hub and workforce research.
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Year 1
Pilot
20+ properties, a mix of retrofit and infill.
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Year 2
Microfactory
Local, vertically integrated production; jobs and supply chain.
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Year 3
Scale & Replicate
Demonstrate, integrate, systematize: a model other legacy cities can adapt.
People
Board of Directors
BMOD is an independent Maryland nonprofit governed by its Board.
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Christina D. Long, AIA
President
Design & Systems Integration Lead
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Ethan Cohen, AICP
Secretary
Planning & Partnerships Lead
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Richard Manekin
Treasurer
Real Estate Development Lead
Research
Research with Morgan State University
Faculty at Morgan State University have worked with BMOD since its start. Their research grounds our work in Baltimore’s real houses, costs and supply chains.
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Existing conditions
Scanning and analyzing Baltimore’s rowhouses, led by Brent Sturlaugson, RA, director of Morgan State’s BEAR Lab.
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Construction management
The safety, risk and cost of renovating rowhouses, led by Kamalesh Panthi, PhD.
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Supply chains
The companies and capacities an offsite housing industry in Baltimore would need, led by Ziping Wang, PhD.
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.