| Want to shift from Boston to California
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| | find out that it can be inexpensive and
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| and worried to death because you do not
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| | also look the same as stick-framed
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| want to abandon the home that took every
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| | houses." Since the houses are inspected
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| drop of your sweat to build and neither
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| | at every phase of construction, there are
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| do you want to rent it to a faceless
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| | no cost overruns because the number of
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| stranger? What about packing it and
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| | contractors are less and most of the
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| taking it with you? Yes sir!! You heard
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| | costs are fixed. What comes as an added
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| me correctly. That's the modular home for
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| | advantage is that a well- built modular
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| you
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| | home has almost the same longevity as
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| A Modular home is the distant,
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| | it's site-built counterpart - something
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| less-tainted cousin of the mobile house.
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| | that raises its value over time.
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| The mobile house, though considered as
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| | However, the modular home has had a
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| the answer to America's
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| | difficult journey towards widespread
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| "affordable-housing" void, faced a
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| | acceptance because buyers have often had
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| head-on blow when it was categorized as
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| | to sacrifice quality for affordability.
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| 'low class' and 'trailer-park'.
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| | Such trivial issues have found their
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| Modular means design based on a module
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| | solution in Douglas Cutler, principal of
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| (unit of measurement) which is repeated
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| | Douglas Cutler Architects in Wilton. It
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| throughout the building. Thus a modular
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| | always struck Cutler that manufacturers
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| home is a house, the sections of which
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| | never sought out talented architects to
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| are transported to the building site and
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| | "jazz up the design" - an initiative that
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| then joined together by local
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| | he took in collaboration with
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| contractors.
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| | manufacturers like Goscobec Modular
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| This kind of a house has it's own
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| | Homes, SUN Building Systems and Haven
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| advantages. To begin with, modular homes
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| | Homes. As a result, we today have modular
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| are built in such a way that they conform
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| | homes with an architectural flair.
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| to any kind of geographical territory. So
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| | And still, the best is yet to come. MIT
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| if one wants to shift from Bristol to
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| | researchers are 'studying ways' to reduce
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| Brunei, there would be no worries about
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| | the brittleness and reinforce the cement
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| the reconstruction of a house. And then,
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| | with microspheres. Innovative metallic
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| there is the question of economic
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| | and adhesive bonding techniques are being
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| viability. To test which, a two-unit
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| | worked upon to join the panels into a
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| modular townhouse was built in Cambridge
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| | weather-tight shell. Combining metal
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| by Epoch and the Hickory Consortium - a
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| | fasteners with structural plastic tapes
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| Cambridge Massachusetts based group. With
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| | are also under consideration.
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| the aim of constructing environmentally
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| | The modular home is yet to see its best
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| sustainable and economical houses, the
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| | days when the completed design will be
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| group found that modular homes cost a
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| | sent via computer network to an automated
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| whooping 15% less than site-built
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| | factory where the components would be
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| construction.
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| | prefabricated and the entire house with
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| As Steve Snyder, the executive director
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| | roof, floor and walls would be erected -
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| of Modular Building Systems Association
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| | all in one day!!
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| in Harrisburg puts it, "A lot of people
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