Word: precut
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...public hungry to meld good design with low cost will make them an attractive alternative, says Charles Bevier, editor of Building Systems magazine, a trade publication. The Freedonia Group, an industrial market-research firm, expects the size of the prefabricated-housing market, which includes panelized, manufactured, modular and precut, to rise to roughly $11.8 billion by 2007, up from $9.5 billion in 2003. (And, yes, that includes trailers and double-wides.) Interest is already beginning to grow--among both consumers and investors. Rocio Romero, 32, an architect from Perryville, Mo., has sold five of her Laguna Verde (LV) kit houses...
...lite architects, who would be the first to exploit the potential of prefab, though mostly in traditional styles--Tudor, Cape Cod, bungalow--that would have made Le Corbusier fall on his protractor. As early as 1906, the Aladdin Company was mailing out factory-made Readi-Cut house kits of precut, numbered pieces. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears Roebuck shipped out nearly 100,000 of its House by Mail kits. For a cost that varied between $650 and $2,500, the ambitious do-it-yourselfer received an avalanche of 30,000 pieces, including lumber, nails, shingles, windows, hardware and house paints...