Thinking Inside the Box
- Posted by: Alexandra Spunt
- on February 4, 2009 at 8:36 am
Some prefabs are well designed, but many aren’t, especially when it comes to eco-friendliness. And the worst offenders—the houses shoddily built from cheap (and toxic) materials, that offer poor insulation and give prefabs such a bad rap—are particularly problematic. Indeed, a prefab’s impact on the environment is only as well-controlled as the designers want it to be.
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