Next, large-scale components of the homes are prefabricated off site to save time, money and resources.
All units feature large openings equipped with prefabricated balcony units for generous open-air ventilation.
When it comes to custom-made, high-tech home building, prefabricated home systems can be a boon.
The cottages are small, prefabricated homes that can be erected in a matter of days.
Mr. Nitze relied on a customizable set of prefabricated building blocks called an itHouse.
In addition to being energy-efficient, prefabricated houses are also meant to be cheaper to construct.
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The young woman loves this city, even the prefabricated concrete structures and, of course, Hoyerswerda's natural surroundings.
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Several companies make very high-functioning, low-cost prefabricated offices that you can just buy and drop in the yard.
Homes, he says, should be circles, their skeletons delivered to the site prefabricated out of recycled steel and glass.
The first of two prefabricated wards has opened to patients at a Berkshire hospital to deal with "extraordinary demand" for beds.
Xi Chengyong, a shoemaker from the leveled county of Beichuan living in a prefabricated housing camp, said quake survivors were struggling.
The prefabricated buildings are leaving Pennsylvania on "low boy" tractor trailers, with extra axles and lowered beds designed to handle big loads.
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For years I firmly believed that the single bathroom we all shared had come prefabricated with someone insistently knocking on the door.
Prefabricated housing meant as temporary accommodation to those left homeless that year is still in use in some parts of the northwest.
Enterprising Syrian refugees, many of whom arrived with nothing, have set up their own retail avenue amid dusty tents and prefabricated metal shelters.
Three years ago, as the construction industry cratered, Bill Haney and Maura McCarthy made the curious--maybe crazy--decision to launch a prefabricated- home business.
Yet the screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi, and the director, Roger Michell, shamelessly milk the pathos of infirmity, lurching heedlessly from one prefabricated poignancy to another.
These are devices not constructed from a collection of prefabricated parts, but created in a form that flows from the intention of the design.
The workers are housed in long prefabricated buildings or, for the luckier ones, traditional gers, circular felt tents (equipped with untraditional en suite facilities, TV and Ethernet cables).
Broad promises five stories a day with its prefabricated techniques.
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He had sold engine-parts, prefabricated houses, magic-lantern projectors, socks.
But it's that kind of gap--typical of even strong murder cases in the West--that gave some outside experts confidence that the Russian government hadn't cooked up a prefabricated show trial.
Some shops will "fit" you for a bike by taking basic measurements, such as your inseam, but they're generally only used to select a prefabricated frame with the correct height.
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This week Inhabitat reported live from the scene of the Solar Decathlon in Madrid as 17 stunning solar-powered houses competed for the title of the world's most energy-efficient prefabricated house.
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Mr. Lutz, who is the co-director of the sustainable-design program at the University of Minnesota's architecture school, liked the fact this house was prefabricated, thus requiring less energy and resources to build.
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The developer recently confirmed that it was considering building thousands of units of modular housing, making one of the proposed high-rises, at 32 stories, the tallest prefabricated residential building in the world.
George Orwell's classic "Nineteen Eighty-Four" shows how even a free society is susceptible to manipulation by overdosing on worn-out prefabricated phrases that convert people into lifeless dummies, who become easy prey for the political class.
The construction site consists of tidy stacks of flat-packed, prefabricated wall units, roof panels and other jumbo components trucked from Michigan and labeled and numbered like parts for a giant Ikea Akurum cabinet.
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Having grown up in a woodworking family in Austria, Mr. Zehetbauer was able to enlist the help of his brother, who prefabricated the windows and siding all to the architects' specifications and shipped everything to Portland.
It's their home, even if the neighborhoods of prefabricated high-rise tenements seem bleak, the list of free-time activities is limited, and several of their friends have already had problems with the skinhead groups that are gaining in popularity.
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