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Michelle Kaufmann, founder of MK Designs, began building sustainable prefab housing in 2002 in response to her own search for a green home. Frustrated by the lack of affordable, sustainable and well-designed homes, Kaufmann decided to build them herself. Today MK Designs offers clients a portfolio of green prefab designs, each of which can be customized both in layout and materials used.
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Prefab holds the promise of delivering a greener home in less time and perhaps even less money, but it is only as green as the designer and the builder. Michelle Kaufmann, Jennifer Siegel, Leo Marmol, Steve Glenn and Andy Thomson know where their materials come from, how far they have travelled, to what tolerances they are installed. You can call any of them up and buy their green and elegant designs now at a quoted price. Try that with conventional construction.
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The benefits of prefab building are hard to ignore. For starters, it eliminates much of the uncertainty surrounding what proponents call stick-built homes. Construction happens indoors, so there's never weather-related delay or damage. Manufacturers trim costs by ordering in bulk, and unused materials are kept for later use (some studies say construction materials account for nearly a third of landfill waste). Houses are typically built on a flat surface, which ensures a truly plumb structure. That ... keeps the crew off high ladders, so workers' comp claims are lower.
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CA Boom's popularity among design-savvy, early-adopters as well as design trade makes it the ideal venue to educate the end-user on the benefits of prefab building techniques. Toby Long, AIA, principal of Clever Homes says, "From the beginning, the CA Boom Design Show has been an ideal forum for our company to convey our approach to design and construction to a creative and inspired audience." Clever Homes has already built five homes and is scheduled to break ground on 20 more during 2007.
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Prefab metal building system consists of a series of integrated, carefully designed, factory-fabricated components. The typical system is composed of primary and secondary framing, roofing, wall and accessory subsystems which is manufactured to give the building versatility, protection, performance predictability and life cycle value.
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Less construction time, ease of alteration and additions have made prefab building the first choice for the building owners. The conventional buildings takes time to build and have maximum on site work, whereas prefab buildings are made to order, crafted into different sizes and shapes, in different lengths and breadths, with placement for nuts and bolts. Packaged and transported from the manufacturing facility to the site where it has to be erected, causing less trouble and taking minimum time to construct the building.
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