What is , if there is , the difference between prefab and a structure that would be manufactured at a local facility and structural elements ie walls etc delivered to the building site for assembly.
My personal feeling is the current prefab infrastructure is energy wasteful and a throwback to the Sears catalogue.
Given modern technology, wouldn’t a localized facility using CAM technology be more efficient?
Where is the disjoint(s) in the building industry?
My only contact with that generation of prefab homes was with Lustron (which turns out to be of steel not aluminum) via the partial home on display in Columbus, Ohio. The notes in the Wikipedia article about the destruction of those once used at the Quantico, Virginia Matine Base are interesting and disappointing but they made an effort to save them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustron_house
Brings back memories. In the early 70s, I was a carpenter on Martha's Vineyard, building Acorn homes. They came on a flatbed truck, in panels. They were sided with Texture 111, a textured cedar plywood with vertical grooves simulating boards. They were quite the modern concept then.
Affordable Vet housing approved by the VA
What is , if there is , the difference between prefab and a structure that would be manufactured at a local facility and structural elements ie walls etc delivered to the building site for assembly.
My personal feeling is the current prefab infrastructure is energy wasteful and a throwback to the Sears catalogue.
Given modern technology, wouldn’t a localized facility using CAM technology be more efficient?
Where is the disjoint(s) in the building industry?
My only contact with that generation of prefab homes was with Lustron (which turns out to be of steel not aluminum) via the partial home on display in Columbus, Ohio. The notes in the Wikipedia article about the destruction of those once used at the Quantico, Virginia Matine Base are interesting and disappointing but they made an effort to save them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustron_house
Brings back memories. In the early 70s, I was a carpenter on Martha's Vineyard, building Acorn homes. They came on a flatbed truck, in panels. They were sided with Texture 111, a textured cedar plywood with vertical grooves simulating boards. They were quite the modern concept then.