Why should a builder be able to do that?
A large Baroque pipe organ might have 3,000 pipes; after 1890 or so, builders were able to make mammoth instruments with 10,000 to 20,000 pipes.
Still, Mr. Effren said: "I think more people are using modular because fewer and fewer builders are able to do it the old-fashioned way.
By the end of the decade, there were some 20 contractors in North America building Earthships, and independent home builders were able to erect Earthships for less than $100,000 by studying with Reynolds's firm, Solar Survival Architecture (later Earthship Biotecture).
With this system, the scientific module builders are able to track variables conveniently in one module or track variables' changes among different modules.
Because of the incredibly small size of this fabulously stylish little Texas cottage, the builders were able to use only reclaimed materials, making this miniature traditional-style home a great (and inexpensive!) recycling project.
He bills himself as a consensus-builder who was able to heal rifts in the party.
Robert Preston, owner of Westwood Homes in Roslyn and a builder for 20 years, was able to buy a former pool club in East Hills on which, he said, he intends to build two houses that will sell for over $1 million each.
When the main tower at Canary Wharf was proposed in the 1980s, according to Peter Bressington of Arup, an engineering firm that is a prolific builder of skyscrapers, nobody was able to predict accurately how long it would take to evacuate if a fire broke out.
But Travis Fonseca, a sales manager at a biotech company, was able to sue the builder of his house in Aurora, Colo.
