The story
Thirty years in the trade, then a bet on the factory floor.
Nathan Young has been in construction since 1991. More than thirty years of framing, building, and running crews taught him how homes really come together, and where the old way wastes time, money, and quality.
Then the 2008 crash hit. Like a lot of builders, he watched the work dry up and had to make the hard call. He rebuilt his company down to a one-man shop and kept going. That is the part most owners never talk about, and it is the part that shapes how he leads today. He came back, and he came back with a plan.
That plan became MODS PDX, a Portland off-site and modular home builder. Instead of building house by house in the weather, Nathan moved the work indoors into a 60,000 square foot factory where homes get built to a controlled standard and come out net-zero capable. He is also a co-founder of HONE Modular, pioneering mass-timber construction. The framer who started with a hammer ended up reinventing how the whole home gets made.