Modular building
Modular buildings are used in remote and rural areas where conventional construction may not be reasonable or possible, for example, the Halley VI accommodation pods used for a BAS Antarctic expedition.
[3] Other uses have included churches, health care facilities, sales and retail offices, fast food restaurants and cruise ship construction.
Construction is offsite, using lean manufacturing techniques to prefabricate single or multi-story buildings in deliverable module sections.
Often, modules are based around standard 20 foot containers, using the same dimensions, structures, building and stacking/placing techniques, but with smooth (instead of corrugated) walls, glossy white paint, and provisions for windows, power, potable water, sewage lines, telecommunications and air conditioning.
PMC modules can be integrated into site built projects or stand alone and can be delivered with MEP, fixtures and interior finishes.
Unlike relocatable buildings, PMC structures are intended to remain in one location for the duration of their useful life.
[15] Sales revenues from a Selby project, plus schemes in Kent and West Sussex, started to flow in 2022, by which time the business's total losses had grown to £174m.
[16] Production was halted in May 2023, with L&G blaming local planning delays and the COVID-19 pandemic for its failure to grow its sales pipeline.
In the UK and Australia, modular homes have become accepted in some regional areas; however, they are not commonly built in major cities.
[21] Differences include the building codes that govern the construction, types of material used and how they are appraised by banks for lending purposes.
The materials used in modular buildings are of the same quality and durability as those used in traditional construction, preserving characteristics such as acoustic insulation and energy efficiency, as well as allowing for attractive and innovative designs thanks to their versatility.
Some modular homes include brick or stone exteriors, granite counters and steeply pitched roofs.
The negative stereotype commonly associated with mobile homes has prompted some manufacturers to start using the term "off-site construction."
[28] Modular homes on the other hand are financed as site built homes with a construction loan Typically, modular dwellings are built to local, state or council code, resulting in dwellings from a given manufacturing facility having differing construction standards depending on the final destination of the modules.
[citation needed] For example, homes built for final assembly in a hurricane-prone, earthquake or flooding area may include additional bracing to meet local building codes.
CLASP's popularity in these coal mining areas was in part because the system permitted fairly straightforward replacement of subsidence-damaged sections of building.
[1] When FEMA studied the destruction wrought by Hurricane Andrew in Dade County Florida, they concluded that modular and masonry homes fared best compared to other construction.
[citation needed] All manufacturing operations are being monitored and recorded: This ID and all the details are recorded in a database, At any time, the producer has to be able to answer and provide all the information from each step of the production of a single unit, The EC certification guaranties standards in terms of durability, resistance against wind and earthquakes.
Here, well-understood components with clean interfaces can be combined to implement arbitrarily complex functions in the hopes of further proliferating self-organising P2P technology.
A socially-oriented endeavour that deals with the external architecture of buildings and the internal dynamics of open source commons.
It has been noticed that given how easy it is to use these low-cost materials are (for example: plywood), it can help increase the permeation of these open buildings to areas or communities that lack the know-how or abilities of conventional architectural or construction firms.
The overarching idea behind it remains key - to allow for easy access to user-friendly layouts which anyone can use to build in a more sustainable and affordable way.
Modularity in this sense is building a house from different standardised parts, like solving a jigsaw puzzle.
