A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication. It consists of factory-made components or units that are transported and assembled on-site to form the complete building. Various materials were combined to create a part of the installation process.
Friends Meeting House (a Manning cottage, 1840), North Adelaide, still in service.
Villa Undine in Binz on German Rugia Island, built in 1885 by Wolgaster Holzbau.
Prefabricated post-war home at Chiltern Open Air Museum - Universal House, Mark 3, steel frame clad with corrugated asbestos cement
A 1950s metal UK prefab at the Rural Life Living Museum, Tilford, Surrey.
Prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a structure in a factory or other manufacturing site, and transporting complete assemblies or sub-assemblies to the construction site where the structure is to be located. Some researchers refer it to “various materials joined together to form a component of the final installation procedure“.
Levittown, Puerto Rico
"Loren" Iron House, at Old Gippstown in Moe, Australia
A house being built with prefabricated concrete panels.
Transportation of prefabricated Airbus wing assembly