Posted on 08/12/2019 6:59:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
LAST night in Bristol, pre-built flats complete with bathrooms and kitchens were lowered by crane into a former nightclub.
The new homes were built in a factory, fully fitted out and decorated and then lowered into the 1950s building which has been standing empty for three years.
Modular construction, where homes are manufactured and fitted elsewhere and then put into place ready-made, has been heralded as one possible solution to the housing crisis.
It's been used successfully in new build greenfield sites before, but this is thought to be the first time that ready-made homes have been fitted into an older building.
It's a popular construction technique with some developers, who say the homes take less time to build, cause less bother for neighbours and have fewer teething problems.
Currently, the UK is suffering from a housing crisis and not enough new homes are being built.
Research from Insulation Express found that despite the government’s plans to build 300,000 homes annually by 2025, the current sector can only deliver 183,000 and only 22 per cent of these would be affordable.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
No they wont. Because the socialist laws that caused the housing crisis in the first place, is still in force.
Good thing they figured out how to do without a roof! That should work well in the UK climate.
In California they are using shipping containers to house the homeless. Naturally they are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to outfit a 300 square-foot container. And naturally the taxpayers are paying for it. But that is what socialism and progressivism is all about.
Something similar was being done in the Bronx, NYC back in the 90s.
Gutted brick row houses were fitted with modular inserts to make two story two family homes.
Oh yeah! That will get them out of sight. But how are they going to get them to quit pooping in the street, shooting up and panhandling.
They need mental health treatment and drug addiction treatment for a start. But to get help the patient has to want to try and they apparently don’t.
Slightly off topic, I have investigated building using shipping containers, and my conclusion is that there is no real savings, because you have to do so much extra work to get the interior habitable. Yes, you can get a secure building as it were on a site instantly, but if you want windows and doors and plumbing and electricity in the structure, whatever you think you’re saving over stick-built is in my opinion lost by the extra work that you have to do to deal with the corrugated sides and the cargo door ends.
There is no crisis, housing or otherwise, anywhere.
Interesting... When I helped plot out a cargo container conversion, we put all the utilities up through the floor using a crawl space underneath for all the pipes and conduits. We debated other methods, but nothing else made sense.
Doors and windows were quick jobs with the proper cutter (in this case, borrowed the saw from the local volunteer fire department after getting a couple replacement discs delivered, one of us to use, one to go on when we were done, and they had a spare for use in training.)
Venting was the only problematic chore and we didn’t do a great job of it, we cut a square in the top and ran all the vent pipes and ducting up through the opening, then fitted in boards and lead flashing to make it weather tight.
1967. I actually visited while it was going on. The building was ugly and is a failure:
Habitat 67 echoes a little known post-war Japanese architectural movement called Metabolism, whose proponents believed buildings should be designed as living, organic, interconnected webs of prefabricated cells. Perhaps the most famous Metabolist incarnation is Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, another pile of concrete cubes dotted with porthole-like windows, erected in 1972. The influence of Le Corbusier, especially the French master’s love affair with concrete, on Habitat 67 is also clear. But Safdie set his own course, attempting to balance cold geometry against living, breathing nature.
Something similar was being done in the Bronx, NYC back in the 90s.
Gutted brick row houses were fitted with modular inserts to make two story two family homes.
How do these homes look, today?
I’m sure the occupants were so thrilled to have nice, new homes that they’ve kept up the maintenance and appearance of these homes, over the decades.
Right?
A Morgan metal building probably costs less, in the end.
Yep.
Funny how MANY folks never appreciate FREE.
I was only there for work...never went back.
Shoot, we've been doing this in Alabama for forty years!
LMAO!
Beat me to it!
Anyone who has been down south knows this.
The cover says “build it yourself.” That won’t fly today because nobody under 35 knows which end of the hammer to pick up.
I’m on my phone now. But tomorrow I will be able to provide a link to that California city that was spending millions of dollars on shipping containers for the homeless. It’s unbelievable. Actually it’s not. It’s what California is all about.
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