Some experts believe that home building should be more like car manufacturing, so that contractors have more control, and that the finished product is more streamlined.
Green Building Advisor's Allison Bailes III says, "When you see how homes are built, it's kind of amazing that they turn out as well as they do," and speaks to the 'buy-in problem', "Factory-built housing has a bad name in this country because people automatically think of mobile homes ... But, there are some really good modular builders who can reduce a lot of the problems of building on-site," per TreeHugger.com.
Compared to the OEMs in the automotive world, building contractors, as well as architects and product engineers, are still in the nineteenth century. Where is the evolution in building construction? Why is it that large parts of our buildings are not assembled as fully integrated major components, off site, in controlled factory conditions?
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