Product Description: Home delivery: The amazing story of the prefabricated house   A prefab is a mass-produced house, constructed in a factory and assembled on–site in a few days or weeks. Once regarded as a cheap, easy solution for urgent housing problems, the prefab has evolved to become a synonym for ambitious design and sophisticated detailing solutions...read more

Sustainable Affordable Prefab combines architectural theory and practice in a beautifully illustrated account of ecoMOD, the innovative design/build program pioneered by John Quale. Unlike most manifestos of green design, Quale's book describes a collaborative process that has produced, to date, four elegantly designed, built examples of sustainable affordable housing.Implementing the principles that produced an award-winning Solar Decathlon project in 2002, Quale and his students at the University of Virginia, working with colleagues in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and with affordable housing providers, have created four designs for environmentally sensitive affordable dwellings. The houses, built with modular units and/or panelized building components, include a two-unit condominium, a post-Katrina home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a historic renovation with an accessible addition, and a townhouse configuration that can be replicated and mass-produced for Habitat for Humanity. Each house pays attention to its site and incorporates sustainable materials and systems such as solar hot water and rainwater retention, and strives for zero energy load.The success of Quale’s ecoMOD project offers multiple lessons for practicing architects interested in affordable, sustainable design and/or prefabrication, for architectural educators looking for new ways to engage students, and for anyone looking to build a sustainable home.

Product Description: This book presents a wide range of projects in container architecture – a contemporary architectural phenomenon. It features container structures used as pop-up stores and temporary exhibits as well as sophisticated housing and office spaces that provoke and inspire while setting new standards in functionality and aesthetics...read more

Product Description: This book presents examples of prefabricated architecture in a contemporary context, with special emphasis on more ecological models. Prefabricated constructions represent a more effective use of resources, a reduction in construction time and a minimizationof the generation of waste...read more

Product Description: IN PREFAB GREEN, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a "prepackaged" green solution to home design...read more

A detailed look at today's pre-fabricated and modular homes demonstrates their ability to embody style as well as low cost, in a visual tour that showcases top available designs while addressing the advantages and disadvantages of pre-fab homes over custom-built structures.

Explores the dramatic new developments in prefabricated home design, discussing the benefits of such systems as timber frame, log, and modular construction and featuring a wide array of home styles, from small to large, that are available to prospective homeowners.

Showcasing the work of award-winning architectural firms, a colorful study demonstrates how design innovators and savvy homeowners have transformed modular housing into a creative, innovative, and affordable alternative, looking at such seminal examples as Michael Graves's 'Target House' and the Ikea 'Blokok House.' Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: This book traces the history of the U.S. Army Signal Corps from its beginnings on the eve of the American Civil War through its participation in the Persian Gulf conflict during the early 1990s. Over the course of its 135 years of existence, the Signal Corps has often been at the forefront of the revolutionary changes that have taken place in communications technology...read more

The founder of the largest dealer of modular homes in the Northeast presents a definitive guide to the purchase of a customized home or addition, with essential information on dealing with contractors, selecting floor plans, choosing details, and more. Simultaneous.

Discussing the intricacies of the prefab home, the author shares his story of home construction, which began with the desire to build a house cheaply without surrending any of the aesthetic qualities that make such a structure beautiful--inside and out. Original.

Product Description: Book by White, Bill J. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Author Avi Friedman believes that rather than being unchangeable, physical environments should be designed and constructed to easily adjust to the evolving lifestyle of their inhabitants. A home, he contends, should be structurally flexible enough to adapt to changes such as children "leaving the nest," elderly relatives moving in, or the need for home office space...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Within the decade, it is estimated that as much as one-third of residential construction will use structural insulated panels, or SIPs. These energy-efficient building panels are among the strongest, most versatile construction components available today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An attractive, lower-cost alternative to site-built homes, factory-constructed housing is becoming increasingly popular. New, more sophisticated methods of construction and strict federal, state, and local codes have resulted in safer, more attractive, and more affordable homes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Carper, James

A national directory of kit-home dealers is accompanied by a close-up look at the diverse types of available kit homes and examines their benefits in terms of adaptability, energy efficiency, and low cost

Product Description: The editors of this informative volume assert that "The United States today -- at a time when more housing is needed than ever -- does not exploit existing building technologies to the fullest. The tools are available, but the constraints are an obstacle...read more