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2. Modular building - Wikipedia

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   Current designs include multi-story units, multi-family units and entire apartment complexes. The negative stereotype commonly associated with mobile homes has prompted some manufacturers to start using the term "off-site construction." New modular offerings include other construction methods such as cross-laminated timber frames. [27]

3. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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   The use of timber framing in buildings offers various aesthetic and structural benefits, as the timber frame lends itself to open plan designs and allows for complete enclosure in effective insulation for energy efficiency. In modern construction, a timber-frame structure offers many benefits: It is rapidly erected.

4. Swedish post-war prefabricated houses - Wikipedia

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   Swedish Timber Framed House at Shorne, Kent.. Swedish post-war prefabricated houses were a response to the housing shortage in Great Britain following the Second World War. 5,000 homes were built from kits made in Sweden and assembled on site.

5. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue

6. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

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   Prefabricated post-war home at Chiltern Open Air Museum - Universal House, Mark 3, steel frame clad with corrugated asbestos cement A 1950s metal UK prefab at the Rural Life Living Museum, Tilford, Surrey. San Sebastian Minor Basilica in Manila, completed in 1891, is the only prefabricated steel church in Asia. [2]

7. Rocio Romero - Wikipedia

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   The kits do not include windows or doors. A local expert must be hired to complete the foundation, wiring, plumbing and meet local building codes. [2] Romero outsources the manufacture of the sheet-metal exteriors, steel frames, trusses, and wall panels [4] and then she oversees the assembly of the components in her workshop. [2]