Hannah's research focuses on advancing traditional building construction techniques by implementing new technologies and processes of making, addressing subjects of rapid urbanization and mass customized housing design.
"The real future for the modular industry is building customized housing in the moderately upscale housing market," Mr. Hallahan said, noting that such housing is prevalent in much of the metropolitan area.
Robert Toll is CEO of Toll Brothers, a national builder of partly customized houses.
The ultimate goal of the described research is a process for mass customizing housing based on computer-aided design and production systems.
Results were plotted and drawn using the cnv package and a procedure in R language customized in house.
According to those who have customized bat houses based upon studies of behavior, the smallest bat house should have exterior dimensions of roughly 13 1/2 inches wide, 3 3/4 inches deep, and 20 inches tall (with an additional 4 or 5 inches of the back wall extending below the floor to the entrance, providing something for the bats to latch on to).
He said in the year since sales started, base prices have risen from $850,000 to $950,000 and final prices, once buyers have customized their houses with upgraded moldings and appliances, have reached $1.2 million.
In particular, For all analyses, customized in-house scripts were written in Perl, with extra modules from BioPerl (Stajich et al. 2002); these scripts are available upon request.
All MRI studies except 3D MR spectroscopy (MRS) were analyzed on customized in-house software, which enabled display of the multi-planar reconstructions (MPRs) of the MR images based on the position and orientation of each specimen, allowing the radiologist to browse the MR images along the angle of each biopsy core.
With this system, a customer is able to participate in the design process by customizing the house according to one's preferred layout, finishing and budget without time-consuming communication with professional designers.
