Sentences with word «prefab»

[Translate] Toyota is a carmaker, but they are also one of the top providers of prefab homes in Japan.

One of the big attractions of modern prefab housing was the fact that architects and builders got to repeat and refine their designs; every iteration got a little bit better.

(MCT)-- The low - slung structure tucked among the unearthly boulders of Joshua Tree looks vaguely like many other modern prefab homes from the last decade — streamlined silhouette, eco-chic materials, indoor - outdoor appeal — but with one key difference.

That's one of the attractions of prefab building; you get to tweak it until you get it right.

Having worked in prefab for a number of years, I can tell you that it's complicated, more than just piling up boxes like Lego.

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.

Acclaimed green architect Michelle Kaufmann is now trying to parlay her success with prefab homes into green community living in her new white paper Embracing Thoughtful, Walkable Neighborhoods.

ps I have a great kit home up at present — have you written much on prefab homes... this one is amazing — .

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

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.

Geoff Warner's Wee House and Altius / Andy Thomson's miniHome, now in new fire - engine red cladding, are on the move to Philadelphia for A Clean Break, a show of modern prefab at the Minima Gallery

At last weekend's Dwell on Design 2010, the conference showcased design - forward products and projects from prefab homes to green roofs, delivering three days of

It's a home that makes the very most of what may seem like a small footprint, with spaces that feel open, fresh and light - filled, demonstrating the best and latest in prefab design down under.

Modern Prefab Modular Modern Kitchen Ideas.

You can also customize floorplans for offices, classrooms and other prefab buildings.

I started as a tipster; I was blogging about prefab housing at the time and found stuff that I was happy to share with a green site.

Unfortunately, most find, after weeks of research, that they just can not afford any modern prefab unit on the market today.

In the regular prefab biz, designers do everything they can to make the house look conventional, often at the cost of efficiency and cost - effectiveness.

This slick sustainable prefab house drew crowds at the 2011 Dwell on Design.

Camera Buildings designs and builds tiny prefab houses and spaces that can be customized to accommodate any type of need including a yoga space, extra bedroom or office.

But I spent four years in the business of designing and selling prefabs and I can tell you that people's expectations of what it should cost are completely unrealistic.

FCR partnered with one of the most experienced prefab builders in the world, SKANSKA, to start FC Modular in the Brooklyn Navy Yards that would change the way construction is done.

Prefab goes in disguise with these sleek tiny dwellings from Estonian company ÖÖD.

Another advantage is energy efficiency, a prime reason Matt and Eileen Cooper built a 2,100 - square - foot prefab with Scott Homes two - and - a-half years ago.

The photo above is from Adam Cohen's company, BuildSmart, which makes prefab housing Lego style.

There are also prefab tiny homes, and a great addition to the already existing lineup is the so - called ARK Shelter, which was designed and built by a Holland - based company.

We pride ourselves in offering top quality, yet budget - friendly prefab restroom buildings for all your education needs.

Photographer Barbara Gallucci notes that «A-Frames, which gained popularity in the late 1960's and 70's, were sold as prefab kits, available at the local lumberyard for just $ 3000.

One of the reasons TreeHugger has loved prefab so much is that by doing things more than once, an architect gets to work out the bugs and get it right.

I would agree that prefab does not scale down well.

Steel Frame Prefab Homes, Modular Homes.

Much of the green claims in prefab come from the lower waste myth that was dispelled earlier.

Read more by Christopher Hawthorne in The Los Angeles Times, who broke the story last night: Green prefab firm Michelle Kaufmann Designs is closing

We've seen prefab saunas, houseboat saunas and secret saunas, so what about mobile saunas?

Take a look at how the following industries that use prefab buildings:

Here's the first picture of the new prefab cabin by BlueskyMod, being launched September 22 at IIDEX in Toronto.

While 3 - D printing in the homebuilding industry has largely created prefab houses whose components are created at a factory and then assembled on location, a new technique is letting one company print the house in its entirety onsite.

Mobile Modular provides the modular building inventory for modular offices, portable classroom and prefab sales buildings.

Though prefab construction is not part of the Passivhaus standard, it has become a common method of construction in Europe.

Education — Schools and other education institutions rent or buy prefab buildings that include portable classrooms, libraries, science laboratories, and computer labs.

Subdivide and get prefabs onto the land; set up utilities, fences, roses & aesthetics, paving, et cetera.

There is so much experimentation happening too, so many prefab systems that come in boxes, panels and even precut sticks like ehabitat's eframe system which «includes all rafters, lintels, posts and bolts, which come cut to length, numbered and ready to bolt together.»

You can build prefab abodes from wood or steel, or create them piece by piece, including walls, roofs and floors, from the junk you gather around the Commonwealth or scavenging materials laying around the settlement.

Other exhibitors offered prefab options for people who want something readymade: Comfort Design's Micro-Habitation model looked much more suburban and conventional, coming with its own full - sized water heater with its own full - sized closet to store it in — a bit self - defeating, if you ask me.

Snap together prefab based structural pieces that can be edited with the Connect the Dots crafting to create your own bases.

In our recent post Prefab Passivhaus CLT Tiny Homes being built in Britain, I described how the modules were completed in the factory right down to the floor finishes, but wrote, «Note how at the end the exterior finishes are done on site, which avoids a lot of problems.»

Well - known Swedish architect Magnus Ståhl wanted to shake up the Swedish prefab market with stylish and cool flat pack homes that are also affordable.

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