Industrialized Housing in the USA
Industrialized Housing is the only solution to the international problem of shortage of housing in all the developed nations as well as developing nations.
The overall integration of Subsystems and Components into an overall system or process’ with total use of Industrialized production, assembly, transportation and erection techniques may be defined as Industrialized Housing.
Manufactured Housing and Factory-Built Housing implies the same meaning as Industrialized Housing. The housing Industry in the United States is gradually moving away from on-site construction and is entering into factory-built construction and a new methodology is evolving. Factory-built housing consists of the manufacturing of Modular or Prefabricated components. Modules are Modular construction.
The generally accepted definition for modular is three-dimensional, self-contained, code complying with Building Blocks or Sectional Homes. A Modular house is manufactured.
However, a manufactured house is not always modular. Sub-categories include single-family modular units and stack or multi-family units. Mobile homes are also manufactured housing. Mobile modular units are units which are built to be code-implying in every way, except that the chassis on which they travel is an integral structural part of the floor.
The advantage of mobile Modulars is that they can be permanent code-complying housing. But, by leaving the wheels attached to the chassis, they also can qualify as highway vehicles and therefore be taxed as chattel rather than real property.
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