07-31-2023, 03:20 PM
(07-31-2023, 01:38 PM)ac3r Wrote:(07-30-2023, 07:07 PM)Acitta Wrote: Does it have to be garbage, or can it be quality construction? Plenty of buildings built the old-fashioned way turn out to be garbage also.Sure, you can build better prefabricated products but then the cost goes up due to the complexities in the manufacturing and installation. You'd have to find a way to somehow produce entire prefabricated buildings off site in numerous factories, ship them to a building site, have them installed in a cost efficient manner and so on. (...)
There is no reason why an entire building would need to be prefabricated. Instead, a builder should be able to purchase some standardized core modules (as one would do when building electronics or developing software) and then customize the rest in order to meet the specific requirements. To an extent, this is already done with things like elevators or HVAC systems which are not custom-built on site. As someone suggested earlier, this could be extended to things such as washrooms.
And Stubbe builds pre-cast concrete panels to customer specifications. They don't particularly make "crap" as such, they make what the builder specs for the building. The panels they provided for Civic 66, for example, look magnificent compared to ones that DTK Condos asked Stubbe to make. Stubbe is not the problem here, and could even be part of a solution.