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Prefab News

Prefab

 
Prefab (or prefabricated) homes are factory-built structures that are generally modernist in style, customizable and boast an array of (often optional) design elements meant to reduce a homeowner’s environmental impact.
 
The manufacture of prefab dwellings is eco-friendly in comparison to traditional home building in that construction waste is minimized and the homes are precision-built to include energy-efficient and sustainable features that would otherwise be difficult to incorporate when building on-site.
 
Additionally, modern prefab homes offer great versatility and mobility than traditional homes.
 
(Text by Matt Hickman)
Photo: RO/LU/Flickr

Articles about Prefab

  • Self-build, surprise-free starter homes offered to newbie Dutch homeowners

    Wed, May 15 2013 at 4:44 PM

    The oldest city in the Netherlands presents a new way to attract first-time homeowners: Affordable, flat-pack abodes available in a range of styles and with no hidden costs or complications.

  • Storm-ready prefab buildings set to debut at NYC beaches

    Tue, May 14 2013 at 7:00 PM

    When faced with a time-sensitive challenge, BKLYN Designs exhibitor Garrison Architects dove right in with the creation of green modular structures that will grace NYC's Sandy-ravaged beaches by Memorial Day.

  • Room and billboard: Prefab dwelling attached to massive blank canvas

    Thu, Mar 28 2013 at 3:31 PM

    Perched above Mexico City's trendiest shopping district, Julio Gomez Trevilla's Billboard House is obscured by an eye-popping mural created by the petite prefab dwelling's artist-in-residence.

  • Traditional Canadian guest bunkhouse goes prefab with Bunkie Co.

    Tue, Mar 19 2013 at 11:02 AM

    Two Ontario firms team up to create a charming sleeping cottage concept that, thanks to the use of a CNC router, is more akin to a giant piece of furniture than an actual small-scale structure.

  • Homes of the future, today [Infographic]

    Wed, Mar 13 2013 at 11:15 AM

    Blu Homes details a few considerations — energy-efficiency and climate change readiness among them — when thinking about your future home with all signs pointing to modern green prefab.

  • Photos: Hudson Valley Breezehouse opens for business

    Tue, Jan 29 2013 at 9:08 PM

    Snow, sleet and near sub-zero temps didn't prevent a horde of prefab admirers — including this blogger — from welcoming this modular masterpiece to the East Coast.

  • For the first time, iconic green prefab 'breezes' onto the Eastern Seaboard

    Thu, Jan 17 2013 at 2:34 PM

    Unstoppable green prefab powerhouse Blu Homes celebrates the East Coast debut of green prefab trailblazer, the Breezehouse, with an open house weekend in New York's Hudson Valley region.

  • Prefab brings modern day sustainability to historic planned community

    Thu, Jan 10 2013 at 8:43 PM

    In observation of one of the original New Urbanist-style planned communities' 75th anniversary, Norris, Tenn. gets a self-sufficient prefab demo home designed by a team from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

  • When Pharrell met Zaha: Duo to collaborate on prefab housing?

    Wed, Jan 09 2013 at 7:10 PM

    When she isn't busy having her buildings pirated and designing spaceship houses for Naomi Campbell, Zaha Hadid is 'touring around' a prefab concept with design dabbler extraordinaire Pharrell Williams.

  • Hurricane vs. House [Infographic]

    Thu, Dec 27 2012 at 2:21 PM

    In addition to offering discounts to those affected by Hurricane Sandy, prefab powerhouse Blu Homes releases an infographic detailing how its speedy n' strong modular homes can weather future storms.

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