However, a new report shows housebuilders are being so slow to adopt modular methods of construction — where homes are built on conveyor belts in factories — that this possible solution to the housing crisis could be in jeopardy.
Since, the carriers were manufactured in modular construction (USS George H.W. Bush was constructed from 161 'super-lift' modules).
Except in commercial applications like wallpaper, where repeating patterns must match up, it is unusual for organic imagery to mesh with modular construction.
Modular construction may provide sustainability benefits, too.
Modular construction has been widely favoured for low-cost housing, school construction, and other purposes.
There also has been uncertainty about the acceptability of modular construction to the construction unions.
Modular construction offers the possibility of safer sites and better-manufactured buildings at standard construction costs.
Paul Rudolph began his career, in Florida, by designing light and airy houses, mostly of modular construction.
With modern modular construction techniques, the carrier does not have a true keel.
Travelodge is not the first hotel company to try modular construction.
