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Prefab, Modular Homebuilder Touts Energy and Cost Benefits

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Prefab, Modular Homebuilder Touts Energy and Cost Benefits qpurcell Wed, 10/04/2023 - 09:00 Dvele —a California-based manufacturer of prefab, modular homes—got started by bringing two building concepts together: high performance and factory construction. Factory modular homebuilding process.

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A Case (Study) for Off-Site Construction in Home Building

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Rather, it employed an off-site construction method that built all of the wall panels, floor panels, and roof trusses in a nearby factory and assembled them on site in fewer than three days. No cutting (or recutting) of materials required, hence the notable lack of any construction din. he was struck by an eerie silence.

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Housing, Industrialized: Designing for Off-Site

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By shaving just a foot off the depth of the three-story, side-by-side duplex destined for an infill lot in Pittsburgh, he enabled Structural Modular Innovations to build three boxes at a time on its factory floor instead of only two. Beazer Homes partnered with Entekra , a panelized systems provider in Modesto, Calif.,

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Explore the Building Products That Make This Year's New American Home Another Standout

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IBS #W2343 THE NEW AMERICAN HOME 2024 GOLD SPONSORS Kohler / *StoneWorks / Wellborn Cabinet Ceiling-Suspended Kitchen Faucet by Kohler Designed to maximize functionality and make kitchen tasks easier, the Purist Suspend kitchen faucet from Kohler * mounts from the ceiling, remaining out of the way until needed.

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Hunter Douglas Architectural’s HeartFelt® modular ceiling and wall system wins over the DFB

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Hunter Douglas scored a win when its award-winning HeartFelt® felt ceiling system was installed in the new German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund – DFB) campus in Frankfurt am Main. The HeartFelt® system allows panels to be installed not only horizontally on the ceiling, but also as vertical wall cladding.

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Harvard University’s new building features hydroformed facade for energy efficiency

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Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Boston, Massachusetts, uses a specially designed hydroformed tensile facade system made of stainless steel to maximize energy efficiency and provide occupant comfort. Every two out of three modules of the unitized aluminum system are fully glazed; the third module is opaque.

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Sound of silence: Specifying the four roles of acoustic ceilings

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By Gary Madaras Suspended acoustic ceilings are mainstream inside many types of buildings and can serve four main sound-related roles. Second, if the partitions between rooms do not extend full height, ceilings can be combined with lightweight plenum barriers to provide privacy from adjacent rooms on the same floor (B in Figure 1).