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Construction of a prefabricated modular home (see also time-lapse video)Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.
Clayton Homes (or Clayton) is the largest builder of manufactured housing and modular homes in the United States. [1] [2] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. [3] Clayton Homes' corporate headquarters are in Maryville, Tennessee. [4]
Champion Homes was founded in 1953 as a single manufacturing facility in the small town of Dryden in rural Michigan by Walter W. Clark and Henry E. George. [5]In 2005, Champion was the first manufacturer to build privatized modular housing for the military.
The MHINCC distinguishes among several types of factory-built housing: manufactured homes, modular homes, panelized homes, pre-cut homes, and mobile homes. From the same source, mobile home "is the term used for manufactured homes produced prior to June 15, 1976, when the HUD Code went into effect."
Modular homes are built to either local or state building codes as opposed to manufactured homes, which are also built in a factory but are governed by a federal building code. [22] The codes that govern the construction of modular homes are exactly the same codes that govern the construction of site-constructed homes.