PROPERTY AND CONSTRUCTION NEWS

Tile Roof: Vertical Ventilation
FireEngineering.com
Subdivisions selling tract homes will often offer the homeowner one of several models to choose from; each design has unique truss construction features based on whether, for example, it is a gable or a hip-style roof. The trusses are usually ...

Wall Street Journal

Million-Dollar Homes Built on a Factory Floor
Wall Street Journal
Initially, the house was built on a factory floor in Westerwald, Germany, by a company called Huf Haus. Its owner, Vaughan Price, had seen a TV show about prefabricated homes and in 2005 decided to spend about $2 million, including cost of the land, ...

Prefab Homes Where Assembly Is Required
Wall Street Journal
Prefab Homes Where Assembly Is Required. Photos of spacious European homes that started out on a factory floor. Jan. 29, 2015 10:56 a.m. ET 0 COMMENTS. fullscreen. It took about four days to assemble this home in Winchester, England. Dylan Thomas ...

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Chicago Daily Herald

Tiny house trend can spark ideas
Chicago Daily Herald
Know that there are hundreds of prefabricated kits on the market that can make building extra space on your property in or outside of city limits much easier and affordable. Cabins have historically taken advantage of local recycled building materials ...

MODE Homes' new system set to revolutionise prefabricated housing market
NewsMaker (press release)
An article unveiling a new fold-pack prefabricated housing system by Australian company MODE Homes has just been published in the online Architecture & Design (www.architectureanddesign.com.au). With demand for prefab housing in Australia set to ...