All Building articles in Building Homes July 2002
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FeaturesTapping in to timber
Factory build doesn't mean homes have to look standard and samey, as Sunley Homes and Environ Country Homes are proving.
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Comment
A virtue of necessity
"Does it stack up?" might not only refer to the technical challenge of developing prefabricated building systems to produce modern homes.
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FeaturesA life more ordinary
One year after resident Debbie Norris moved into her factory-built semi – a scheme dreamt up by Wimpey, the Guinness Trust and Britspace to prove that modular was a good way to build a new home – she had a few bones to pick with representatives from the alliance. But ...
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Comment
Is prefabrication the solution to the undersupply of housing? - For
James Pickard is in no doubt
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NewsFinishing touches
This prefabrication special watches a four-bedroom showhome go up in six weeks and takes a look at energy-efficient timber frame
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Features
Faith in pod
Prefabrication is being held up as the answer to any number of housing problems, but are housebuilders ready to embrace the technical changes necessary to make it happen?
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FeaturesModels of efficiency
The scions of The Peabody Trust might have been doing some head-scratching after approving the designs for its most recent modular housing scheme at Raines Dairy in Stoke Newington.
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Comment
Is prefabrication the solution to the undersupply of housing? - Against
Richard Hough thinks it sounds the death knell for choice
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News
Prefabs with a difference
Just when you thought prefabricated buildings were all the same… We check out another Peabody Trust modular innovation and a timber-framed, environment friendly enclave in Kent