enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Modular building - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_building

   Construction is offsite, using lean manufacturing techniques to prefabricate single or multi-story buildings in deliverable module sections. Often, modules are based around standard 20 foot containers, using the same dimensions, structures, building and stacking/placing techniques, but with smooth (instead of corrugated) walls, glossy white paint, and provisions for windows, power, potable ...

3. Portable building - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_building

   Portable cabins. In Australia, small portable dwellings are often called dongas. [4] In Australia the word "demountable" in particular refers to portable classrooms. [5] In the United Kingdom the words "Portakabin", "Portacabin", "Bunkabin" and "terrapin" are commonly used to describe these buildings. The use of these words as generic ...

4. List of house types - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_house_types

   Kit house: a type of pre-fabricated house made of pre-cut, numbered pieces of lumber. Sears Catalog Home: an owner-built "kit" houses that were sold by the Sears, Roebuck and Co. corporation via catalog orders from 1906 to 1940. Laneway house: a type of Canadian house that is constructed behind a normal single-family home that opens onto a back ...

5. Kit house - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_house

   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 home - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabricated_home

   In the United States, several companies, including Sears Catalog Homes, began offering mail-order kit homes between 1902 and 1910. [2] The Forest Products Laboratory , a division of the U.S. Forest Service , put extensive research into prefabricated homes in the 1930s, including building one for the 1935 Madison Home Show. [ 3 ]

7. News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

   homepage.aol.com

   Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.