Q: A new house is being built near me using wood walls made in a factory. I was astonished that the house was under roof in just two days. What's better, walls built on the job site by carpenters or ...

Låda Cube’s Demountable Insulated Panels (DIPS) are prefabricated walls made from rigid exterior pieces with foam sandwiched between them. These pre-made pieces can be fitted together easily to create ...

Felipe Campolina’s ECObitat is a modular housing system designed specifically to provide emergency or disaster relief housing. Easily transported and made of off-the-shelf materials, the one-bedroom ...

Napa-based construction supplier Central Valley has launched a prefabricated-wall division and plans deliver its first framed panels to a home rebuild in Santa Rosa’s wildfire-devastated Coffey Park ...

These days, a wall is a sophisticated and complex product that shouldn't be thrown together in a field. Over a decade ago, Architect James Timberlake wrote that mass production was the "the ideal of ...

Delta’s UPstile is a prefab shower wall that comes with an inlay where you add the tile of your choice. Homeowners are embracing prefabricated shower walls with open arms. And why not? They offer an ...

Neighbors of Jeff and Shannon Neve's quickly rising two-story house in a 20-year-old Walnut Creek neighborhood can say, "That place went up practically overnight." And they can say, "They don't build ...

After three years of trying, Bethel New Life, a West Side community development group, finally persuaded Chicago building inspectors to approve prefabricated, panelized walls for a low-cost housing ...

A hundred years ago, it was nothing for a homebuyer to purchase a house from the same source that supplied her corsets and motor buggy. From 1908 through the 1940s, Sears, Roebuck and Company sold ...