Sentences with phrase «in prefabricated»

From The New York Times on Jan. 7, 1968: «In the year 2000, we'll live in prefabricated houses light enough for two men to assemble....

While this amount does not appear to take into account the $ 168m for the construction of a new tower, an expense which is however justified by the need to «repatriate» staff who have been working in prefabricated buildings since 1999, the economic cost of the CJ's proposal may be viewed as relatively modest.

Even Bucky Fuller tried to do this in his prefabricated bathroom but couldn't get the plumbers interested; there is less money in connecting only one fixture instead of two.

Not exact matches

In that role, he recruits high - end designers to create prefabricated homes for middle - market consumers.

It didn't repair an existing home or use prefabricated parts to make that happen — the secret lies in 3 - D printing.

But in recent years, architects have increasingly turned to prefabricated construction, in which parts are built off - site and assembled on - site, making the process a lot quicker — and often cheaper.

In fact, 50 percent of contractors report their companies already use prefabricated and modular components and the number was even higher among general contractors (72 percent).

Prefabricated materials were used in 65 percent of the designs presented for the Case Study House Program, which was held to demonstrate how technology developed during World War II could be applied to housing construction once the troops returned, the New York Times reported.

Less than a year later, New York City called for the delivery of 2,000 Quonset huts — prefabricated frame structures that were used in the war — to a 75 - acre site in Canarsie to house veterans.

Prefabricated materials were used in 65 percent of the designs presented for the Case Study House Program,

DESIGN Company owner Rod Hadrian says his prefabricated product would make the wall cheaper and easier to install in remote border areas.

Using equipment originating in Sweden, ZyTech prefabricates floors, walls, trusses — basically most major lumber components related to building construction — and then ships them out to building sites.

But it belongs on the rump of the cultural right as well, for Robert Caserio has usefully defined «political correctness» to mean «a prefabricated sense of values, a predetermined set of assumptions about what is good for people and what is bad for them» (quoted in CHE 1).

While process philosophy is not a prefabricated feminist theory of relations, it provides a worldview which is compatible with feminist perspectives in several respects, and the complementarity of feminism and process philosophy suggests the fruitfulness of Whiteheadian metaphors for feminist theory.

In spite of Whitehead's sympathy for women's issues and the compatibility of Whiteheadian thought and feminism, it is important to remember Mary Daly's warning that feminists should beware of prefabricated theory.

And without any prefabricated religious systems of heroics into which they might fit their lives, many had little opportunity to discover and feel deeply the sense of significance they needed in order simply to exist as persons.

«Edison's «Single - Pour System»: Inventing Seamless Architecture» illustrated how Thomas Edison invented and patented in 1917 an innovative construction system to mass produce prefabricated and seamless concrete houses.

Thus in Jesus as the Son of Man we have not a prefabricated human nature, some ready - to - wear suit, but the Son of Man who was truly a human being both in his being perfected and in his being the mediator of the perfect Love.

Among other things, the aggrieved employees claimed that Mrs. Osei unilaterally awarded a GHc 3.9 million contract for the demarcation and partitioning of an office complex without engaging the Commission, and indulged in cronyism by awarding another contract to the tune of $ 14,310,961 to associates for the construction of prefabricated District offices.

Prefabricated modules of a few feet square that contain similar layers can also be assembled like puzzle pieces; this approach can be easier to install, although it can be expensive and also results in seams.

To prove it, West Coast Green, an exposition in San Francisco dedicated to environmentally friendly construction, debuted the first ever fully manufactured version of architect Michelle Kaufmann's mkLotus prefabricated house.

The Japanese brought in large prefabricated metal spans from Indonesia for a permanent bridge.

In this design each part is prefabricated and shipped together — even the vegetable - growing roof tiles.

Unlike large reactors, SMRs would be essentially prefabricated in factories instead of on - site.

Lahti likens the UMass Amherst team's advance in materials science to the kind of benefits the construction industry saw with prefabricated building units.

Easily prefabricated, fire resistant, and far lighter than steel, bamboo - based structures could be assembled in three weeks and last 50 years.

«The palindrome regions of the Y are almost like a house that is being rebuilt,» says Page — one in which similar, prefabricated units are being added on in different ways in the genomes of the two species.

In the scientific journal Nature, the team now describes how larger structures can be built using prefabricated parts.

Last year, Marson and Schumann successfully used CRISPR to perform precise DNA sequence replacements in primary human T cells for the first time by prefabricating the CRISPR machinery in test tubes, then adding it to the freshly donated immune cells.

Robespierre shows uncommon restraint in that the film offers no easy answers or prefabricated epiphany.

Describing the actor's directorial debut, Jones says, «Franco is not one of these people with prefabricated plans for making his star rise in the sky.

In an age of prefabricated special effects and obviously phony spectacle, it's sort of old - fashioned (and a pleasure) to see a movie made of real people and plausible sets.

On a first or second visit, most seem content with the park's prefabricated story lines: the search for buried gold, hunting an outlaw in the hills, etc..

And the film dips into half - sketched glimpses of the outside world — in which the poor live in stacks of prefabricated homes, in which corporations buy personal debt and enslave the debtor to work odd jobs in the OASIS for them, in which scores of people walk down sidewalks wearing OASIS goggles and gloves.

The first is the provision E of a building that inspires the schoolchildren and the local community; the second is the way in which this building inspires them; and the third is the use of prefabricated materials, where possible, and simple detailing to reduce the labour and waste in order to meet the school's tight budget.»

But, at the very same time, the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results show that most classrooms in Israel are dominated by very traditional teaching geared to help students reproduce prefabricated subject - matter content.

To make do we have used transportable prefabricated classrooms which are cheaper in the short term and easy to remove once they are no longer needed.

Controversial buildings Prefabricated buildings as they were known historically (and still so in many people's eyes) have not always enjoyed good press in the past.

Whether you need office buildings, permanent retail locations, classrooms or restrooms, Mobile Modular provides the best prefabricated and temporary building solutions in Alabama.

We have compiled a multitude of photographs showcasing prefabricated buildings used in many popular applications.

He warned classroom technology can be a distraction and result in pupils cutting and pasting «prefabricated» homework answers from the internet.

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There don't seem to be an prefabricated list of bloggers who might participate in blog tours.

Wherever you buy, you'll find that setting up your island refuge is much easier than in the past, thanks to solar energy and prefabricated homes.

As technology advanced, prefabricated skeletal iron or steel structures tended to be used for lighthouses constructed in the 20th century.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is played in first - person by default to give the player the feeling that they are the character within the world, opposed to entering the ill - fitting shoes of a prefabricated avatar.

Although unique works, not editions, the painting - like things that Finnis presents were in fact printed by Magnolia Editions of Oakland in acrylic inks on prefabricated surfaces - doors, drawer and desk components from Ikea.

Where design and photography promised to debunk the originality of the avant - garde, a building almost insists on its original presence — even in something as faceless as prefabricated homes or a housing project.

This surrender to gravity, process, and chance signaled a new way of making art, in contrast to the pristine, prefabricated geometries of his former Minimalist work.