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(More customer reviews)After the many coffee table books illustrating prefab modern houses, this book is a much-needed rigorous review of prefab design and construction processes and outputs. It synthesizes the many facets of offsite construction emerging in the construction industry, but does it from an accessible perspective allowing the reader to understand the history of production and its future in realizing new innovative buildings. The book gets a bit wordy on contemporary design and construction practices and the tradeoffs to industry professionals of prefabrication for the lay design enthusiast and the fabrication technician. However, it appeals to both crowds with ample coverage of contemporary architectural examples of prefabricated houses, commercial structures and interiors; and the technical coverage of materials and systems reviews the methods of production and lean approaches to outputs for building construction thoroughly. The chapter on green building is instructive in illustrating how modular and prefabrication can be leveraged to achieve LEED ratings and other environmentally responsive building goals. Resting somewhere between an updated version of A.F. Gibb's Offsite Fabrication published in 1999 and glossy architecture folio books of the early 20th century, this book synthesizes the current academic/professional research, cultural understanding, and technicalities surrounding fabrication and assembly in the U.S. building industry, demonstrating to architects and construction professionals the when, where, what, why and how of prefabrication.
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