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2. Structural insulated panel - Wikipedia

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   A structural insulated panel, or structural insulating panel, (SIP), is a form of sandwich panel used as a building material in the construction industry. SIP is a sandwich structured composite , consisting of an insulating layer of rigid core sandwiched between two layers of structural board.

3. Kit house - Wikipedia

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   Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue

4. Kit House (Style Spotlight) - AOL

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   By Bud Dietrich, AIA Kit houses were America's first mass-produced, prefab homes, sold by Sears, Montgomery Ward, Gordon Van Tine, Aladdin and a few others. The materials for these homes, ordered ...

5. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

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   Many prefab houses can be customized to the client's specific location and climate, making prefab homes much more flexible and modern than before. There is a zeitgeist or trend in architectural circles and the spirit of the age favors the small carbon footprint of "prefab".

6. Some Sacramento homes might be built from kits. But did they ...

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   While an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 homes were built through the Sears Modern Homes collection between 1908 and 1942, in styles like Craftsman, Colonial and bungalow, the high cost of shipping ...

7. Prefabricated home - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, several companies, including Sears Catalog Homes, began offering mail-order kit homes between 1902 and 1910. [2] The Forest Products Laboratory, a division of the U.S. Forest Service, put extensive research into prefabricated homes in the 1930s, including building one for the 1935 Madison Home Show. [3]