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  2. List of Lustron houses - Wikipedia

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    There are also 5 Lustron homes in the Kansas City area near 85th and Wornall Road. One of them was the display model and residence of the local sales representative. Local legend says that the salesman came home one day and told his wife that he no longer had a job because the company was bankrupt, but they still had their house.

  3. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

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    Construction of a prefabricated modular house (Click here for a time-lapse video) A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication. It consists of factory-made components or units that are transported and assembled on-site to form the complete building.

  4. Formwork - Wikipedia

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    The two major advantages of formwork systems, compared to traditional timber formwork, are speed of construction (modular systems pin, clip, or screw together quickly) and lower life-cycle costs (barring major force, the frame is almost indestructible, while the covering if made of wood; may have to be replaced after a few - or a few dozen ...

  5. Prefabrication - Wikipedia

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    A house being built with prefabricated concrete panels. The most widely used form of prefabrication in building and civil engineering is the use of prefabricated concrete and prefabricated steel sections in structures where a particular part or form is repeated many times.

  6. Stair lift - Wikipedia

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    Stair lifts are used by people of all ages and child car seats can usually be fixed a standard stair lift seat using the seat belt provided with the stair lift system. Many stair lifts are also fitted with a key, to allow the user to prevent others from using the lift. Codes of practice and technical specifications apply to stair lift manufacture.

  7. Excel Homes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Precast concrete - Wikipedia

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    The efficiency, durability, ease, cost effectiveness, and sustainable properties [13] of these products have brought a revolutionary shift in the time consumed in construction of any structure. Construction industry is a huge energy consuming industry, and precast concrete products are and will continue to be more energy efficient than its ...

  9. Stairs - Wikipedia

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    A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps between landings. A stairwell is a compartment extending vertically through a building in which stairs are placed. A stair hall is the stairs, landings, hallways, or other portions of the public hall through which it is necessary to pass when going from the entrance floor to the other floors of a building.