Modular & Prefab

Foundations engineered for speed, without cutting corners on compliance

Modular and prefab construction lives or dies on the program. A foundation system that slows the build down defeats the purpose of building modular in the first place. FTA has engineered and installed foundations for over 3,000 projects across residential and commercial modular projects, without compromising compliance for speed.

Two markets, one standard

Residential — We work at a broad spectrum of scales from granny flats and custom homes to large retirement villages. Speed and repeatability matter here as much as compliance, because every project type benefits.

Outdoor view of a yellow mini excavator with a hydraulic drive attachment drilling vertical steel screw piles into red dirt, guided by a worker in high-visibility safety gear near suburban homes.

Commercial — Classrooms, remote housing, multi-storey modular builds. Compliance documentation and program certainty matter more because the buyer responsible for both is usually a government agency or head contractor.

Outdoor view of a crane lowering a white prefabricated modular home module onto installed ground screw foundation piers, watched by a construction worker wearing a high-visibility safety vest and hard hat.

Why FTA for modular and prefab

Craned on the same day. Once piles are installed, cut and connections fitted, the building can be craned on immediately, no waiting for concrete to cure.

Verified capacity on every pile. Torque-monitored installation means capacity is confirmed as the pile goes in, not assumed.

Proven at scale. 2,000+ Lifestyle Communities homes, 100+ granny flats a year, 50-plus VSBA school and kinder classrooms delivered.

Design for Manufacturing and Assembly. Proprietary bolted and screwed connections from pile to bearer, built to work with modular construction methods rather than around them.

Point of difference

Most foundation contractors treat modular as just a faster version of standard residential. We treat it as its own discipline — engineered to the tight tolerances and compressed programs modular builders actually need, whether that’s a single granny flat or a multi-storey classroom block.