there are lots of advancements in the whole building process. im watching a house-reno/barn-conversion project on TOH. they are using a pre-engineered foundation that showed up at the building site on a flat bed. that means they use less concrete because they can engineer empty pockets, like using an I-beam instead of a solid chunk of steel. they use stress skin (osb-styro-osb) sandwiches for external walls that are really cool and are now showing up all over the place. they have the windows, doors, plumbing holes and electrical raceways pre-cut too. i dont know exactly the process your friends referring too but lots of new technology starts regional and works its way across the country.
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- bill 1-18-2005 10:10 pm