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Construction of a prefabricated modular home (see also time-lapse video)Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.
Modular homes are built to either local or state building codes as opposed to manufactured homes, which are also built in a factory but are governed by a federal building code. [22] The codes that govern the construction of modular homes are exactly the same codes that govern the construction of site-constructed homes.
Both types of homes - manufactured and modular - are commonly referred to as factory-built housing, but they are not identical. Modular homes are built to International Residential Code (IRC) code. Modular homes can be transported on flatbed trucks rather than being towed, and can lack axles and an automotive-type frame.
Clayton Homes (or Clayton) is the largest builder of manufactured housing and modular homes in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway . [ 3 ]
Champion Homes, Inc., is a mobile and modular home manufacturing company. [1] It is one of the largest modular homebuilders in North America. [ 2 ] The company also provides factory-built housing to the United States and western Canada .
Excel Homes Group, LLC, in Camp Hill, PA, was a manufacturer of custom modular homes in the United States. [1] According to the company, Excel Homes built more than 28,000 modular homes in its climate-controlled plants in Liverpool, Pennsylvania and Avis, Pennsylvania , since its founding in 1984.
Modular construction has consistently been at least 20 percent faster than traditional on-site builds. [citation needed] Currently, the design process of modular construction projects tends to take longer than that of traditional building. This is because modular construction is a fairly new technology and not many architects and engineers have ...
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 ...