What Nashua Builders does

Nashua Builders is a privately held, family-owned off-site modular construction manufacturer operating from a 154,000+ square foot climate-controlled fabrication facility in Boise, Idaho, established in 1988 at its current location since 1989. The company produces volumetric modular buildings — including multi-family housing, hotels and resorts, educational facilities, commercial offices, remote workforce/man-camp housing, and Park Model tiny homes — by moving as much as 90% of construction off-site into factory conditions, which the company reports delivers 20-25% cost savings and up to 40% faster timelines versus conventional stick-built methods. Its production process relies on proprietary methods including 3D design software, custom jigs, hydraulic wall-positioning lifts, mezzanine/catwalk systems, a custom building wrap, and a modified piece-work compensation program that rewards team output rather than clock hours.

The business runs on a direct-sales, project-based (build-to-order) model with quote-driven, custom pricing and multi-year contracts; it engages developers, property owners, government entities, and hospitality/resort operators directly with no intermediaries. Named customers include Baywood Hotels (a longtime Hilton developer behind the first modular Hilton Garden Inn, in Fremont, CA), The Pacific Companies (multiple workforce-housing projects including The Sawyer in Mammoth Lakes and Frishman Hollow in Truckee), Adam Berger Development (West Holden Place in Denver), Winter Park Resort/Alterra Mountain Company (Conifer Commons), American Family Housing (Casa Paloma supportive housing), Lone Mountain Land Company (Powder Light in Big Sky), the Town of Vail (Chamonix Townhomes), Triumph Development (Coburn Crossing), and Caldera Industries.

The company competes primarily in the Western United States (Colorado, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming) with selective reach into Alaska and Canada for harsh-environment remote housing. Its workforce of 51-100 employees includes second- and third-generation family members with deep institutional modular-construction experience, and it has received seven Modular Building Institute (MBI) Awards of Distinction between 2019 and 2026 across multi-family and workforce housing categories, reinforcing its reputation as a long-tenured regional specialist in off-site modular construction rather than a national mass-market producer.

Name

Nashua Builders

Legal name

Nashua Builders

Website

https://nashuabuilders.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Nashua Builders is a family-owned, Boise, Idaho-based off-site modular construction manufacturer that designs and fabricates volumetric modular buildings — including multi-family, hospitality, education, and remote workforce housing — for developers, government, and resort operators across the Western United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Modular Construction / Prefabricated Buildings

NAICS

Residential Building Construction (23611), New Multifamily Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) (236116), New Single-Family Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) (236115)

SIC

Mobile Homes (2451), Prefabricated Wood Bldgs & Components (2452)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Modular & Prefabricated Home Construction (IMAFABAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Custom Home Building (IMAFABAC), Spec Home / Production Homebuilding (Tract & Volume Builders) (IMAFABAD)

Keywords

• Modular construction
• Off-site construction
• Volumetric modular buildings
• Multi-family housing construction
• Hospitality modular construction

Headquarters

HQ city

Boise

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Modular Building Sales: One-time sale of custom modular building units for multi-family housing, hospitality, education, and other applications. Projects include design, fabrication, and delivery of modules to client sites.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Nashua Builders designs and manufactures custom volumetric modular buildings in a 154,000+ square foot climate-controlled facility in Boise, Idaho. The company fabricates modules for multi-family housing, hotels and resorts, education facilities, commercial offices, remote workforce/man-camp housing, and park model tiny homes, with up to 80–90% of construction completed in the factory before modules are shipped to client sites for installation.

Product overview

Nashua Builders is an off-site modular construction company that delivers world-class quality modular buildings through its 154,000+ square foot climate-controlled manufacturing facility in Boise, Idaho. Their portfolio spans five core product categories: Multi-Family Housing (apartments, townhomes, and affordable housing complexes), Hospitality (hotels and resorts), Education Facilities (schools, learning centers, classrooms), Office Buildings (commercial spaces), and Remote Housing (workforce housing and man camps for harsh environments). They also offer Park Model Tiny Homes as a consumer product. Projects range from named developments like Casa Paloma (71 units), Chamonix Townhomes (38 units), Coburn Crossing (139 units), Powder Light (48 units), Conifer Commons (330+ beds), Oakland International Seniors (320 units), West Holden Place (77 units), The Sawyer (81 units), Spring Creek Apartments (282 units), San Carlos (9 units), Frishman Hollow (68 units), Silver Creek Hotel (56 rooms), Hilton Garden Inn (145 rooms), and Children's Learning Center, to general product lines serving developers of multi-family housing, hotels, resorts, townhomes, schools, offices, and remote housing needs across the western United States.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Multi-Family Housing Modular Buildings Off-site volumetric modular construction of multi-family residential buildings including apartments, townhomes, and affordable housing complexes, delivered to developers seeking cost-controlled and accelerated project timelines.
• Hospitality Modular Buildings Off-site modular construction of hotels, resorts, and resort accommodations for hospitality operators and resort developers needing rapid completion within seasonal windows.
• Education Facility Modular Buildings Permanent modular buildings for educational institutions, including K-12 schools and learning centers, covering kitchens, cafeterias, offices, and classrooms with cost efficiency and minimal campus disruption.
• Office Building Modular Construction Modular commercial offices and interior build-outs designed for rapid, cost-efficient deployment of office and commercial space, including constrained budgets, remote sites, and tight schedules.
• Remote Housing / Man Camp Modular Buildings Prefabricated modular workforce housing complexes designed for extreme cold, harsh environments, and challenging remote build sites, primarily serving the Canadian and Alaskan oil and gas industry.
• Park Model Tiny Home Compact luxury tiny homes with high-end finishes, spacious living spaces, sheltered front porch, sliding glass doors, and large windows in 388–391 square foot configurations, supplied to high-end custom builders.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20-25% cost savings compared to conventional construction
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Winter Park ResortcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint effort on Conifer Commons project - 330+ bed workforce housing project hailed as 'a national model for other ski resorts.' Partnership included Alterra Mountain Company (parent company), Town of Winter Park, Winter Park Recreation Association, and Saunders Construction.
• Adam Berger DevelopmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDeveloper partner on West Holden Place - Denver's largest high-density modular construction housing project targeting healthcare worker housing crisis. Also partnered with City and County of Denver, Colorado Department of Housing (CDOH), and Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA).
• The Pacific Companies (TPC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of America's most prolific developers of workforce housing, partnering on multiple projects including The Sawyer in Mammoth Lakes (part of Town's Housing Now! program) and Frishman Hollow in Truckee.
• Baywood HotelscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLongtime Hilton partner developing modular Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Fremont, CA - the first modular hotel for the Hilton Garden Inn brand, featuring 145 rooms and 12 EV charging stations.
• American Family HousingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNonprofit affordable housing developer for Casa Paloma - Orange County's first modular supportive housing development providing 71 units for unhoused and low income households.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• KBS Builders: KBS (formerly Kiernan Built Structures) produces volumetric modular multifamily apartments and hotels from a large New England facility. Like Nashua, it targets developers building mid-rise residential and hospitality, with an emphasis on accelerated timelines.
• Guerdon Modular Buildings: Guerdon is one of the largest modular manufacturers in North America, producing volumetric multifamily, hospitality, and commercial modules from facilities in California and Idaho — directly comparable to Nashua on product mix, geography, and customer base (developers, hotels, affordable housing).
• Plant Prefab: Plant Prefab (Robert Downey Jr.-backed) operates a custom prefabricated home factory in California focused on single-family and ADU projects. Shares Nashua's custom-factory-build DNA and sustainability narrative, though concentrated in residential rather than multifamily/hospitality.
• Wernick Group: Wernick is a long-established UK volumetric modular manufacturer producing multifamily, hospitality, and education buildings from factories — closely analogous to Nashua on production method, project type, and value proposition to commercial clients.
• Stack Modular: Stack Modular manufactures steel-framed volumetric modular buildings for multifamily and hotel developments globally, including projects in the Western US. Comparable to Nashua on technology (volumetric, factory-built) and customer type (developers, hospitality).

Broad incumbents

• Champion Home Builders: Champion (Skyline Champion) is one of the largest publicly traded manufactured and modular housing producers in North America, with multifamily modular products serving developers. A much larger incumbent in adjacent modular building space.
• WillScot: WillScot is a publicly traded leader in modular space leasing for temporary workforce and commercial needs. While Nashua sells permanent modular buildings rather than leases temporary space, WillScot represents the broader public-market scale of modular space delivery in North America.
• Clayton Homes: Clayton Homes (Berkshire Hathaway) is the largest manufactured home producer in the US. While primarily focused on off-site single-family housing rather than multifamily volumetric modular like Nashua, it represents the dominant scale player in factory-built housing.
• ATCO Structures & Logistics: ATCO delivers modular buildings globally across workforce housing, education, and commercial segments — including remote oil-field housing in Canada/Alaska, directly mirroring Nashua's Remote Housing product line. Broader portfolio but overlapping customer base.

Emerging players

• Boxabl: Boxabl produces factory-built foldable housing units primarily for single-family residential and workforce housing. Compares to Nashua on volumetric factory methodology, but is focused on a smaller, single-family unit with much greater capital and press visibility.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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