Buildings have been built in one place and reassembled in another throughout history

1. History of Prefabricated Houses

2. Buildings have been built in one
place and reassembled in another
throughout history.

3. Possibly the first
advertised prefab
house was the
Manning Portable
Cottage.
A London carpenter,
Henry Manning,
constructed a house
that was built in
components, then
shipped and
assembled by British
emigrants.

4. The peak year for the
importation of
portable buildings to
Australia was 1853,
when several hundred
arrived.
These have been
identified as coming
from Liverpool, Boston
and Singapore (with
Chinese instructions
for re-assembly).

5. In Barbados the Chattel house was
a form of prefabricated building
which was developed by
emancipated slaves who had
limited rights to build upon land
they did not own.
As the buildings were
moveable they were
legally regarded as
chattels.

6. In 1855 during the Crimean War,
after Florence Nightingale wrote a
letter to The Times, Isambard
Kingdom Brunel was
commissioned to design a
prefabricated modular hospital.
In five months he
designed a 1,000
patient hospital, with
innovations in
sanitation, ventilation
and a flushing toilet.

7. The world's first prefabricated,
pre-cast paneled apartment blocks
were pioneered in Liverpool.
A process was invented by city
engineer John Alexander Brodie,
whose inventive genius also had
him inventing the football goal net.
The tram stables at Walton in
Liverpool followed in 1906.
The idea was not extensively
adopted in Britain, however was
widely adopted elsewhere,
particularly in Eastern Europe.

8. During the Gold Rush
when quick
construction was
required due to time
restraints prefabricated
homes were in high
demand.
Prefab kits were produced in order for Californian
prospectors to cater to the high demand of quick
construction.

9. Prefabricated housing was popular
during World War II due to the need
for mass accommodation for
military personnel.
The United States used Quonset
huts as military buildings, and in the
United Kingdom prefabricated
buildings used included Nissen huts
and Bellman Hangars.

10. McDonalds uses
prefabricated structures
for their buildings, and
set a record of
constructing a building
and opening for
business within 13
hours on pre-prepared
ground.
In the UK, the major supermarkets have each
developed a modular unit system to shop building,
based on the systems developed by German cost
retailers Aldi and Netto.

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