Sentences with phrase «as prefab»

Modular homes are trending in these last few years and these are also well - known as the prefab shipping container homes.

We are celebrating our 30th Anniversary as a manufacturer of custom modular homes, also known as prefab homes, to states located in the Northeast region.

The project was built from 22 shipping containers donated by a company, which were properly isolated and used as prefab modules.

Or as the prefab salesmen say: «you wouldn't build your car in the driveway, so why would you build your house in a field?»

Brian Kennon's solo exhibition «Group Shows,» on view this past summer at Steve Turner Contemporary, employed the rules of the former to reformulate the latter, demonstrating that the layout of an exhibition can be as prefab as a page layout.

It's as prefab as the Oasis, the limitless VR world where we spend most of our time in Ready Player One.

Stuffing them all into the scene and then pulling them out as prefabs, instead.

Be they inspired by sailboats, Fibonacci spirals or built as prefabs, treehouses amuse and delight, bringing grown - ups back into a world of childlike imagination.

Not exact matches

Kaufmann's book Prefab Green describes off - site construction and the green design principles of homes such as the Glidehouse ®, the Sunset ® Breezehouse ®, the mkLotus ®, and others.

Egan drives to the prefab «war zone» via the Vegas Strip; characters especially Egan's superior (Bruce Greenwood) and the program's newest member (Zoë Kravitz) don't so much converse as exchange politically charged talking points.

Two obstacles: 1) McAvoy and MacKenzie are estranged ex-lovers, with a lot of prefab conflict to be backstory'd in as the series goes on; and 2) nobody had the guts to tell Sorkin this surfeit of «Mc» names was a terrible idea.

Retail — Prefab buildings can be used as both temporary and permanent retail buildings — everything from popup shops to showrooms.

Mobile Modular's live inventory search provides a quick and efficient search tool for a wide variety of medium and large prefab buildings in stock, such as portable classrooms, mobile offices, prefab restroom buildings and more.

Mobile Modular provides custom modular buildings such as portable classrooms, mobile offices, prefab restrooms, and other spaces for various industries.

Manufactured homes may also be referred to as prefabricated, or prefab, homes and have a permanently attached, wheeled chassis, which allows them to be moved from the manufacturer to the site, or from site to site.

Attempting to evoke the works of sci - fi masters such as John Harris proved an enormous challenge, and required dozens of layers of custom particles and prefabs to make the ships of EVE as epic as the lore suggests.

We want to offer a prefab based building system where you can craft the pieces you need, such as foundations, walls or ceilings and then snap them together to create a base to protect your loot.

As one last collaboration, Ray and Charles Eames tackle prefab housing in LA, with colorful grids after Piet Mondrian.

The show marked the U.S. debut of an all - white prefab home for which, upon entry, visitors were allocated colorful, circular stickers, which ultimately rendered the interior unrecognizable, unless, of course, as a vision of Kusama.

However, Bublex sees the now ever - present mini-cities of prefab bungalows used on construction sites as an extension of the original Plug - In City, and from this he imagines his own evolution of urban utopian possibilities.

«Gilded Cage» continues that idiom, even as it relies on prefab metal instead of found materials.

By Caroline Picard download printable pdf «We are not, as we sometimes like to imagine, independent thinkers with our own unique & groovy style of cognition: we have in fact inherited a narrow repertoire of prefab concepts, and we find ourselves thinking as thinking things on highly ramified architectonics of ideas, and along deeply grooved paths of -LSB-...]

As in other parts of the city, the latest version of white brick apartment blocks come in red or yellow brick with vaguely SoHo Revivalist fenestration; they spring up in Chelsea's plentiful parking lots so quickly you might think they are being laid in like prefab houses.

Hailed as the new Berlin, Leipzig offers cheap rents in prefab concrete 60s and 70s apartments and studio space in repurposed factories.

As a long - time prefab proselytizer I approached Sheri Koone's new book with some trepidation.

A lot of lessons have been learned over the last decade as architects and manufacturers try to make modern green prefab affordable and accessible to a wider audience.

I used to believe, as she still does, that «Prefab is intrinsically green» but don't any more;

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The resurgence of modern prefab is presented as an alternative to new urban development — homes that are refreshing, honest and complimentary to their historical counterparts — considering their relevance to affordable housing and parallel with the green building movement.

I have built prefabs where the house started construction in the factory on the same day as the foundations were poured, and the house was set two weeks later.

Because of the fixed costs of overhead and the crane, at a thousand square feet it is almost impossible to do a prefab as cheaply as site built.

Canopea was built of a prefab CORE, site - built SKIN, and a SHELL capable of off - site fabrication as well.

Unity Homes has recently unveiled a prefab home, which is sustainable yet still made to last for at least as long as traditionally constructed homes.

Referred to as the Rainbow Duplex, the home was designed by Marken Projects and built by Durfield Constructors with a high - performance, panelized prefab system by BC Passive House.

Soup to nuts to grass - fed beef, to solar - powered EV charging stations, to modern prefab homes, to the «boost» in Ford EcoBoost, to the world's largest collection of climate data, Asheville is building a reputation as one of the most beautiful, creative, and sustainable cities on the planet.

Nineteen eco-friendly prefab houses are currently competing on the National Mall in the 2011 Solar Decathlon, and Maryland's WaterShed house has led the pack through the first week, as judges awarded points in a variety of categories.

Offsite construction has been in existence for some time and has been viewed by many as a niche market related to the «prefab» projects of the post war years.

an array of mobile nomadic prefab laneway homes («modpods») are proposed to provide needed adaptable affordable housing for the city, but equally important, will act as incremental nodes of sustainable energy and urban farming infrastructure for it and the immediate home, as well as the city at large.

Which brings up the most incredible aspect of Prototype 2: It is going to be used as the basis for a 24 - unit prefab building in Manchester, England; a building, Spurrier reports, will stay largely true to the prototype's design.

As we noted last year in an earlier roundup of modern sheds, they are an great way to get more space without more mortgage, and the gateway drug for modern prefab.

Having worked as an architect and builder in the prefab world, I have been skeptical about whether Katerra can disrupt the industry (see Can you really build a building like an iPhone?).

San Francisco already has several innovative small space developments such as Cubix SF, a building made up of 250 - 350 square feet luxury condos, and an upcoming four - story prefab - construction building with 300 square foot units in the city's SoMa district.

As they push down the learning curve, green modern prefab is finally getting seriously affordable.

The house was constructed by prefab experts A-Hus, but designed as a mass producible model by Wingårdh.

It's not good enough to cover a prefab modular unit with local recycled snow - fencing and as Mark Wilson says on Fast Company, have it «exude craftsmanship» and get LEED Certification and call it green, because it's really just a greenwrapped trailer.

The best analogy to prefab houses is the Mini Cooper — mass produced but with enough options to let the owners feel they have a custom automobile...» Michael Pyatok, FAIA Pyatok Architects Berkeley, Calif.»... As long as housing is treated as a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perceptioAs long as housing is treated as a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perceptioas housing is treated as a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perceptioas a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perception.

Invented in 1828, it was used in the earliest prefabs, shipped from Britain around the world, but fell out of fashion as local building industries developed.

When buyers choose a prefab house, they'll still have to arrange for building permits, electrical hookups, water supply, and a septic system or connection to the municipal sewage system — just as if they were planning for a custom - built home.

Prefab 2.0, where buyers opt for modular homes as a budget - friendly alternative; floating eco homes as the next generation of «green» housing; and creative house swaps, facilitated by social networking.

And Hurricane Katrina in 2005 put the prefab Katrina Cottages on the radar as an affordable alternative, says its designer Marianne Cusato.