Sentence examples for modular house has from inspiring English sources

As Ms. Proffitt, 44, observed, "The modular house has advantages: 120 workers will build your house in five days in a factory," and it arrives "at its appointed hour, or there will be penalties".

"Modular housing has obviously come a long way," Mr. Kaufman said.

The modular-shaped house has three main levels and a mezzanine, and includes nine bathrooms and a self-contained apartment.

Much of the innovation in modular, kit housing has emerged from the small-scale world of custom-build.

The Museum of Modern Art plans to exhibit five modern prefabs in a lot beside the museum this summer, and Resolution 4: Architecture of Manhattan, the firm that designed the Bronx house, has won awards for its energy-efficient modern modular dwellings.

Manufactured homes, modular construction and prefab housing have been around a long time, but this is something more hybrid, more high-tech than that.

DuraKit Shelters Inc. has developed a modular house for emergency, temporary or semi-permanent occupation that uses corrugated fibreboard as the main structural material.

Then, on the Monday before Labor Day, a truck hauling the two sections of the new modular house crept up the road that had been clogged with fire equipment two months earlier.

Mr. Johnson of Future Surroundings said that since his company began in Southampton with the installation of one modular house in 1984 -- a three-bedroom, two-bath ranch -- business has increased to 20 houses a year.

You will have to choose the outside finish of your modular house, and some finishes may cost more than others.

But these early houses have little relationship to the modular and other prefab houses built today.