Prefabricated building
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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.
Renkioi Hospital
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Renkioi Hospital was a pioneering prefabricated building made of wood, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as a British Army military hospital for use during the Crimean War.
Plan of a ward building, Renkioi Hospital