The , located in Rockwood, Maine, is one of the super energy-efficient prefab designs of the year. A highly covetable structure, this barn/studio is not only a net-zero house — meaning it strives to ...

Karen Manley receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works, and the Western Australian Building Commission. Buildings offer an easily ...

This minimalist off-grid prefab is designed to not look like a prefab. For all their advantages when it comes to quality and sustainability, prefabs still get unfairly characterized as being ugly, ...

With Klik, Australian companies Elenberg Fraser and Unitised Building have come up with a prefabricated modular building system they claim is equally suited to knocking up a quick skyscraper as it is ...

Snow loads, –30 °C nights, and humid summer heatwaves test any cabin. A prefab kit that thrives in those extremes starts with a super-tight shell: thick wall assemblies, continuous insulation, and ...

A prefabricated home is assembled on-site from prebuilt parts, as opposed to a stick-built home, which is constructed from the ground up in the traditional way. Prefabricated houses are often thought ...

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Touted as an alternative to the more expensive brick-and-mortar houses, prefabricated buildings might not be cheaper in the long run, after all. PAUL KARIUKI explores the reasons Dan Maigwa believes ...

Set on a vineyard in California’s Napa Valley, a compound intended to entertain a large family is in the early stages of design. In addition to the main residence—in what Oakland, California-based ...

There’s an enduring misconception that prefab means “temporary” — the sort of thing you install and forget. It probably dates back to Britain’s post‑World War II prefab programme, where hastily ...

Prefabricated projects aren’t just cut and paste construction – at least not when they’re done by Stack + Co. The Boston and Providence-based integrated architecture and construction firm deals with ...