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2. Modular building - Wikipedia

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   Modular homes are becoming increasingly common in Japanese urban areas, due to improvements in design and quality, speed and compactness of onsite assembly, as well as due to lowering costs and ease of repair after earthquakes. Recent innovations allow modular buildings to be indistinguishable from site-built structures. [20]

3. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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   Manufactured homes are built onto steel beams, and are transported in complete sections to the home site, where they are assembled. Wheels, hitch and axles are removed on site when the home is placed on a permanent foundation. Mobile homes, or trailers, are built on wheels, and can be pulled by a vehicle.

4. Manufactured housing - Wikipedia

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   As of May 2011, the median price of a home in Santa Clara was $498,000, [8] while the most expensive manufactured home with all the premium features was only $249,000. [9] This drastic price difference is due to the fact that manufactured homes are typically placed in communities where individuals do not own the land, but instead pay a monthly ...

5. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

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   McDonald's uses prefabricated structures for their buildings, and set a record of constructing a building and opening for business within 13 hours (on pre-prepared ground works). [ 25 ] In the UK, the major supermarkets have each developed a modular unit system to shop building, based on the systems developed by German cost retailer Aldi and ...

6. Modular construction - Wikipedia

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   Modular construction is a construction technique which involves the prefabrication of 2D panels or 3D volumetric structures in off-site factories and transportation to construction sites for assembly. This process has the potential to be superior to traditional building in terms of both time and costs, with claimed time savings of between 20 ...

7. Wildfire explodes to more than 2,000 acres in Malibu ... - AOL

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   Around 20,000 people were under evacuation orders after the blaze, dubbed the Franklin Fire, broke out shortly before 11 p.m. Monday in the Malibu Canyon area, the Los Angeles County fire and ...