Sentences with phrase «prefab houses]»

It's a prefab built by Toyota in an assembly line with robots and conveyor belts, and comes with a sixty year warranty.

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On another design website they title their post The Vipp Shelter is a plug - and - play prefab home that can be placed just about anywhere.

Star architect and designer Frank Gehry, perhaps best known for adding steel and aluminum curves in unexpected places, is no newbie to the green scene: He has a prefab under his belt, and, in the late 1960's, he was a pioneer in the

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.

There are no prefab, cookie - cutter tiny houses.

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

One of the first tiny house manufacturers, Tumbleweed Tiny House Company now offers travel trailers and prefab cottages starting at 117 square feet.

This year's Solar Decathlon home design competition saw many fresh takes on the solar - powered prefab home, but Team New Zealand stood out from the pack with its elegant, light - filled, wood clad home.

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.

A fleet of new companies also use the 20 - or 40 - foot containers to create prefab tiny homes, all available to order and delivered to your location.

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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.

I always enjoy catching up with my friend Richard Pedranti at the North American Passive House Conference hosted by PHIUS, and he was at the NAPHN event promoting his new project: Prefab Passive House.

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

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DIRTT produces custom, prefab workspace interiors.

I'm sure expensive prefab walls weight less than what I can build with 2 × 4 plywood faced walls, but either way I analyze it, there is a TON of glue involved that I don't want to be forced into a relationship with.

Blu ® Homes builds award - winning, architecturally designed prefab houses in a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility near Vallejo, California using a proprietary steel framing and building technology that results in economical, low - maintenance houses that are strong, beautiful, and finished on - site.

It's an interesting vision for living — one that could just be a reality with already existing technology and prefab construction methods.

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

Prefab is not often cheaper in terms of actual construction cost per sqm.

And for Superpod ®, prefab means that the particular materials we have used, being prepainted steel, and Upvc, which never needs painting, substantially reduce maintenance and lifecycle costs.

The Italian architect Renato Vidal has recently unveiled a prefab foldable home, which can be installed in less than a day.

Prefab homes are a great solution when looking to build fast, and now there is another awesome option to do so on the market.

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If in a factory, they are prefab pods, delivered on a truck and connected on site.

However, many people are interested in prefab, even if it costs more per sqm, because they sensibly take into account other costs.

Although given the fact that this is a prefab building, it should be erected quickly.

Small House Builders, Prefab and Kits.

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.

Cottage in a Day Prefab Tiny Cabins.

-LSB-...] Chad Ludeman of Postgreen Developments in Philadelphia wrote a guest post on Jetson Green titled Prefab is Not The Answer to Affordable, Modern & Green Homes.

Do some research and you'll find that MODERN prefab homes are VERY expensive per square foot.

The basis of the hybrid system proposed here is that prefab is good in the right places and in the right doses.

Lloyd Alter from Treehugger who has prefab experience picked up the post and quickly some -LSB-...]

Allyson Wendt of Building Green also added her thoughts on the future possibilities of affordable, green prefab.

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If the prefab footing shown is used, it appears that the panel could rest on the foam and perhaps the foam could carry just the load of the panels at least for a couple of stories.

Prefab Building Envelope Now that we've covered the planning phases of a lower cost hybrid home, we can get into the nuts and bolts of the structure itself.

His title isn't subtle: Prefab is Not the Answer to Affordable, Modern & Green Homes.

The author is talking about MODERN prefab architecture, not gussied - up sheds.

-LSB-...] guess this all started when I wrote a guest blog post for Jetson Green titled Prefab is Not The Answer to Affordable, Modern & Green Homes.

Camera Buildings deliver their prefab homes to Canada and the U.S. and are planning on future deliveries to other countries.

Most prefab companies are still using loose, batt insulation that is often falling out of the framing by the time the modules reach the site.

This innovative prefab passive house building in South Surrey, British Columbia, was completed in 2013.

Please view the Ready Structure models if prefab or hybrid homes are a choice for you.

A 130 square feet prefab home in Machipongo, Virginia.

I spent a few years in the prefab biz, then trying to market the Sustain MiniHome, and failed because of the land issue; it just killed the economics.