Zhao Baojun, chief product officer of CSCI, said most of the existing MiC projects in China are low-rise, multi-story buildings with seven floors or less. The "Hailong Cubes" MiC solutions can be employed to build permanent high-rise buildings up to 100 meters tall, which are able to resist strong winds and earthquakes.

"The 'Hailong Cubes' MiC solutions represent the frontier of modular construction technology worldwide," Zhao said. "We believe that they will bring significant changes to the construction sector and represent a milestone in construction industrialization in China."

In the past, high-rise steel MiC buildings were difficult to build mainly due to the safety issues surrounding inter-module connection, and the construction of high-rise MiC buildings has long been a bottleneck for the construction sector, according to Zhao.

CSCI has developed a new grouted connection technology for modular buildings and used it in the S series. With this technology, steel modular buildings can be connected as rigidly as conventional steel structures, and buildings up to 100 meters tall can be constructed in a very short time, Zhao said.

A representative project for the S series is the Binhai Health Station in Laishan district in the city of Yantai, East China's Shandong province.