Benefits of Off-Site Building

There are convincing arguments to be made in favor of prefabricated housing. By Frank Anton When it comes to prefabricated housing and its potential to revolutionize the housing industry, I’ve never been a true believer. Maybe it’s because of that month during winter 1972 when I worked in a modular housing factory in Vermont: 10-hour shifts, two 15-minute breaks, and a half-hour for lunch (all punched into a time clock) for barely a living wage. Or maybe it’s because of all the bad-looking manufactured homes I see along old Route 30 in Pennsylvania when driving to visit my mother in Pittsburgh. …

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