enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabricated_building

   The United States used prefabricated housing for troops during the war and for GIs returning home. Prefab classrooms were popular with UK schools increasing their rolls during the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s. Many buildings were designed with a five-ten year life span, but have far exceeded this, with a number surviving today.

3. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabricated_home

   Lustron houses were mass-produced, prefabricated, enameled steel, houses developed in the post-World War II era United States. Lustron Corporation manufactured homes that were clad in coated steel panels [ 4 ] Over 2,000 homes were constructed during Lustron's brief production period, and they proved to be extremely durable with many still in ...

4. List of house types - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_house_types

   Manufactured house: a prefabricated house that is assembled on the permanent site on which it will sit. Modular home: a prefabricated house that consists of repeated sections called modules. Lustron house: a type of prefabricated house; Stilt houses or Pile dwellings: houses raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water.

5. Stairs - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairs

   A staircase or stairway is one or more flights of stairs leading from one floor to another, and includes landings, newel posts, handrails, balustrades, and additional parts. [4] In buildings, stairs is a term applied to a complete flight of steps between two floors. A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps

6. Prefabrication - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabrication

   Detached houses, cottages, log cabin, saunas, etc. are also sold with prefabricated elements. Prefabrication of modular wall elements allows building of complex thermal insulation , window frame components, etc. on an assembly line , which tends to improve quality over on-site construction of each individual wall or frame.

7. Building material - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_material

   Wood has been used as a building material for thousands of years in its natural state. Today, engineered wood is becoming very common in industrialized countries. Wood is a product of trees, and sometimes other fibrous plants, used for construction purposes when cut or pressed into lumber and timber, such as boards, planks and similar materials ...