Mobile and modular solutions are developed rapidly and in cost-effective ways to serve new community and business needs or to optimize the performance of existing operations.
The world is constantly evolving, and Black & Veatch is at the forefront of that change rather than shying away from it. We’re reshaping how we engage with our clients and our communities in response to societal challenges. Black & Veatch’s mobile and modular solutions encompass various types of temporary infrastructure that can be broadly categorized as follows:
Mobile units, often in vehicular form such as a cargo van or box truck, are fully transportable and perfect for businesses looking to bring their products or services to multiple locations and test out new markets.
Modular units provide a semi-fixed facility without the high price of permanent infrastructure and can be utilized for longer-term operations while still providing some mobile functionality. These solutions are great for temporarily relocating during building remodels and supporting operations that aren’t convenient to your headquarters.
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Mobile and Modular Solutions: Five Ways to Rapidly Address Evolving Business and Community Needs
With supply chain issues affecting almost every industry, companies are looking for quicker ways to go from project conception to completion. At the same time, communities are suffering from the lack of skilled workers, a growing digital divide, extreme weather events and health crises. What if there was a fully customizable solution, with competitive speed to market, to meet the demands of businesses and community members?
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Business and Community Use Cases
Used as alternatives to more permanent infrastructure, our mobile and modular solutions are quicker to deploy, less expensive, and more flexible. These are just a few ways mobile and modular solutions can be utilized to benefit both businesses and communities:
Workforce development and digital equity. Employment demand is projected to grow by 8.3 million jobs by 2031, but employers are struggling to fill their open positions with qualified candidates. Digital equity creates additional obstacles for workforce development, as 19 million people don’t have high-speed internet access at home.Mobile and modular solutions quickly bring much-needed skills trainings and high-speed internet access to underserved, often rural areas without constructing costly communications networks.
Disaster relief and healthcare. In 2022, natural disasters cost the nation $175.2 billion in damages. Mobile and modular solutions offer quick-to-deploy, potentially life-saving services while damages to critical infrastructure are repaired. Disaster relief initiatives can also be leveraged to mitigate “healthcare deserts” and the lack of routine health services for vulnerable populations – delivering care directly to those who need it.
Nonprofit support and enhanced business operations. The secondhand clothing market is expected to reach $70 billion by 2027, but nonprofits are struggling to keep up with the inventory. Mobile and modular solutions give these organizations a more efficient way to collect and distribute secondhand donations. Similar solutions can be deployed for other types of business to test out new markets and establish satellite offices to extend the reach of ongoing operations.
PFAS regulation compliance. PFAS mitigation has the potential to prevent tens of thousands of related illnesses caused by long-term exposure but complying with new Per/Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) regulations is estimated to cost water utilities $3.8 billion per year. Utilities are considering mobile and modular solutions to provide immediate relief for water treatment needs to accelerate the development of more permanent infrastructure.
Mobile and Modular Solutions: Five Ways to Rapidly Address Evolving Business and Community Needs
With supply chain issues affecting almost every industry, companies are looking for quicker ways to go from project conception to completion. At the same time, communities are suffering from the lack of skilled workers, a growing digital divide, extreme weather events and health crises. What if there was a fully customizable solution, with competitive speed to market, to meet the demands of businesses and community members?
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Three Things to Know About Workforce Development
Many Americans face employment barriers including low computer literacy, unreliable transportation, and lack of internet access. Simultaneously, employers are struggling to fill open positions with qualified candidates. This article reveals answers to three key questions about this community development issue, including how construction industry professionals can help.
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Mobile Donation Collection Vehicle Extends Reach of Kansas City Nonprofit Efforts
MoKan Goodwill already has a very successful business operation, but they are always strategizing how to further bolster their operations and better serve their communities. The nonprofit had four main goals that sparked the integration of a mobile solution into their growth strategy. Black & Veatch designed a custom solution to fit MoKan Goodwill’s needs — the Mobile Donation Collection Vehicle.
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Modular Solutions for PFAS
Providing safe drinking water for our communities shouldn’t take years. Fortunately, modular water treatment solutions provide immediate relief from PFAS contamination concerns. While new facilities and expansions can take years to permit and construct, modular units can be deployed as soon as upfront testing and assessments are complete.
Award-Winning Innovations
Black & Veatch’s Digital Equity Bus, designed for Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington as a mobile classroom for workforce development, won the top Edison Awards prize in the “Social and Cultural Impact: Bridging the Gap” category. In 2021, Black & Veatch’s Rapid Modular Health System won the gold award in the “COVID-19 Innovations: Mobilizing for Emergency Response” category.
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Pioneer First-of-its-Kind Mobile and Modular Infrastructure
Black & Veatch’s mobile and modular solutions are backed by over 100 years of experience designing and building major infrastructure around the world. Our capabilities expand each time we have the privilege to collaborate with a client looking to address their evolving needs in creative ways. Contact us to talk about your business goals and discuss how an innovative modular solution could be the best way to achieve them.
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Lee Health is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S., serving more than two million patients each year. In September of 2022, Hurricane Ian devastated Lee Health’s service area, including impacts to multiple acute care facilities. In communities all over southwest Florida, many people were unable to leave their homes as major road infrastructure was impassible and alternative transportation was limited. In the months following, Lee Health began to seek rapidly deployable infrastructure solutions to mitigate the impacts of future disasters and support communities in need when impacted by storms.
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Goodwill Industries is a nonprofit organization that proves an unassuming bag of secondhand donations has the power to change lives. Through Goodwill’s retail stores, sales from your donations fund job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs. Black & Veatch's mobile and modular solutions team collabored with Goodwill of Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas (MoKan Goodwill) to meet their business objectives in our hometown of Kansas City.
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