Sentences with phrase «prefabricated construction»

Completed in March, the student development center was built by Project Frog, a San Francisco company that has married green building and prefabricated construction techniques.

Pitt Construction, Chicago • IL 2005 — 2006 Construction Worker Provided onsite Construction experience and assistance for building and remodeling projects for stick built and prefabricated construction projects.

«our modules are more than 15 % cheaper than the prefabricated construction in greece and 30 % cheaper than the traditional,» explains the design team at cocoon modules.

Our modules are more than 15 % cheaper than the prefabricated construction in Greece and 30 % cheaper than the traditional [construction].

Other advantages of prefabricated construction include reduced labour and on - site costs, and a faster turnaround — which is ideal when classrooms are urgently required.

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.

Not exact matches

Last October, the consortium reported several challenges, including transporting oversized prefabricated parts within the province and construction labour woes.

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.

The real estate industry has seen its own advances during that time, with drones debuting on construction sites and prefabricated modular apartments now being snapped together easily onsite.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers using prefabricated, easily transportable components.

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

The project used prefabricated elements to construct the garage and the Construction Manager at Risk delivery method (Every Day Counts Method).

With its ten huge complexes of prefabricated slab - construction housing, Hoyerswerda was once a showcase socialist metropolis for the GDR; today it is Germany's fastest - shrinking city.

The Minim Home (a 210 sqft tiny home on wheels), a prefabricated studio shed, and a tiny house that is currently under construction by DC high school students.

But conventional strawbale construction is slow, and if the stuff gets wet it is a problem, so it's prefabricated,, built in a nearby shed.

They say that it is prefabricated offsite, and that construction time will be half that of conventional construction.

Ryan Cox and Darrin Fryer, co-owners of SmartPads prefabricated homes built in Utah and Idaho, will discuss a new down - payment assistance program accepted by Yampa Valley Bank that allows a borrower to qualify for a construction loan with 10 percent down with an additional 10 percent assistance from SmartPads or another third party.

Slimbouwen technology, which employs a panelized structural floor system with separate prefabricated services, is incorporated to reduce volume, waste, and construction time while allowing further flexibility and demountability.

Farrow (also known for their huge glue - laminated timber space in Mississauga, Ontario's Credit Valley Hospital) will prefabricate these treehouses offsite in three pieces, using FSC - certified lumber and techniques culled from sailboat construction techniques.

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.

The construction industry has always been innovative, from the engineering feats of the last century to newer construction methods that use sophisticated building modeling, 3D - printed building materials, and prefabricated facades.

To keep traditional construction costs down and to help ensure spaces are built properly, the My Micro New York building will be prefabricated and modular.