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2. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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   A steel framing system was devised consisting of vertical steel studs and roof-ceiling trusses to which all interior and exterior panels were attached. The concept of prefabricated housing was well established by firms such as The Aladdin Company , Gordon-Van Tine Company , Montgomery Ward , and Sears in the early 1900s.

3. Portable building - Wikipedia

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   Temporary buildings on site during construction at Birmingham New Street station in 2011 North Isles Motel in Cunnister, Shetland. A portable, demountable or transportable building is a building designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located. Smaller version of portable buildings are also known as portable cabins.

4. Quonset hut - Wikipedia

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   Quonset huts at Point Mugu, California, in 1946 with Laguna Peak in the background.. A Quonset hut / ˈ k w ɒ n s ɪ t / is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel with a semi-circular cross-section.

5. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...

6. Skyline (construction set) - Wikipedia

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   The instruction booklet to these sets contained plans for several buildings and bridges one could build and gave set numbers from which one would need to do so. There is also a Second Version of the Instruction Manual with the cover in Color, the main difference is that the Commerce Building, (Built with Set No. 95) is a totally different ...

7. Stick-built construction - Wikipedia

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   Stick-built homes are also built using a more traditional method of construction rather than a modular type. [2] The "sticks" mentioned usually refer specifically to the superstructure of the walls and roof. Most stick-built homes have many of the same things in common.