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This 22-unit housing complex was built in four days from prefab units. https://www.panoramic.com/cityspace-location/shattuck-berkeley/ https://www.panoramic.com
by carapace 4y ago
This 22-unit housing complex was built in four days from prefab units.
https://www.panoramic.com/cityspace-location/shattuck-berkeley/ https://www.panoramic.com/cityspace-location/shattuck-berkel...
"... the cost of trucking [the modules] to Berkeley from the port of Oakland was more expensive than the cost of shipping from Hong Kong."
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/08/02/prefab-housing-complex-for-uc-berkeley-students-built-in-four-days https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/08/02/prefab-housing-compl...
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/8/6/17656118/fast-apartment-residential-building-berkeley-patrick-kennedy-prefab https://sf.curbed.com/2018/8/6/17656118/fast-apartment-resid...
- notahacker 4y agoFor the most part, those cost differences are due to US trucking being expensive and international shipping relatively cheap rather than anything specific to the modular construction. The same material (actually more due to waste) has to be transported to the site if you use different methods of construction. The need to fit on the back of a truck imposes an upper limit on the smallest dimension of a room if they're shipped as full rooms and not flat packed wall units, of course, but that's unlikely to be an issue for student apartments in Cali.
- hindsightbias 4y agoThat would not be true today, with $40k container costs.