One of the nation's largest producers of factory-built houses builds a complete Craftsman-style modular house on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
"...Because it is modular (factory-built segments are transported to the building site), it can be assembled in a variety of configurations, once the foundation is poured, and can be ready for occupancy in usually just 90 days... It seems ideal for infill use (in spaces between existing structures in cities) and is being used for that purpose in Ohio and California.... And the best... It has the look and feel of an early-20th-century Craftsman-style bungalow, even though some of the materials - the Owens Corning 50-year asphalt-shingle roof, fiber-cement 8-inch lap siding, and composite-wood floorboards on the porch - are as modern as the computerized factory process that produced it."
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