prefabrication

Frey wrote in 1988 that he and Kocher “had been discussing the need for low-cost housing in those Depression years. We thought that a small, single-family house, using the new methods of prefabrication and maintenance-free materials, would be both popular with visitors to the Exposition and offer a solution for the housing shortage of the times.”

Frey wrote in 1988 that he and Kocher “had been discussing the need for low-cost housing in those Depression years. We thought that a small, single-family house, using the new methods of prefabrication and maintenance-free materials, would be both popular with visitors to the Exposition and offer a solution for the housing shortage of the times.”

For example, MacDonald-Miller has established a unique partnership with Prairie View A&M, a Texas HBCU, as well as others, to find interns from its prefabrication, mechanical engineering and construction management programs that are interested in exploring a career and life in the Pacific Northwest.

Although the structures take 165 man-hours to produce including the prefabrication, his team can build one a day, Zhuk said.

The prefabrication of parts like walls and staircases had been gaining momentum before the pandemic as a way to save money and time.