The inside of the pilot factory of construction startup Cuby is like the inside of a lot of factories doing the prefabrication of buildings: There are rows of machines and workstations and small teams of people efficiently building chunks of what will eventually be combined into a building. Such factory-based construction takes what would conventionally be built on a construction site and builds it inside a factory, making the bulk of construction more streamlined and weather-agnostic, and the onsite work more akin to assembly. Cuby is one of many companies trying to make factory-based construction a mainstream part of the way buildings get built.

But Cuby isn’t just a variation on a theme. Backed by an undisclosed amount of funding from climate tech venture capital fund At One Ventures, Cuby is trying to change how factory-based construction happens. Cuby’s product, according to cofounders Aleks Gampel and Aleh Kandrashou, isn’t the buildings that come out of the factory, but the factory itself.

During a recent tour of the factory via video call, Gampel and Kandrashou explain that their company is building the tools for prefabrication and modular building to scale up massively, including both the machines to make building components and the factories where the work gets done. Key to their approach is that the machines and the factory are all transportable.

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