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I worked for the biggest building supply/manufacturing company in the US. It's not a loss of skill, it's the economies of scale that comes with prefab. It's no
by piyh 4y ago
I worked for the biggest building supply/manufacturing company in the US. It's not a loss of skill, it's the economies of scale that comes with prefab. It's not only faster to build with, it's cheaper to the builder, and it's a higher margin product to sell. It's the right choice for a majority of homes, and a majority is what you see.
It's at the point now where you can build your house out of a catalog then do VR walkthroughs. That's a great sell to the customer and something you can't do the old way.
- conductr 4y agoWas going to echo this. There has been an explosion of building products/systems/technologies that make comparing to even just 20+ years ago difficult. A focus on energy efficiency and air quality also means that some old methods have been demoted from their status quo position of the past. Other products actually enable low skilled workers to do things that once required high skilled craftsmen.
- syntheweave 4y agoIt's a combination of prefab cost meeting regulatory constraint. The most generic of the new builds have been optimized for cost while also working within legal requirements for many states and cities. Overall I welcome it, because there's a herd strength in having a generation of homes all built the same way, with the same kinds of known caveats.