Advantages of Prefabricated Houses
The advantages of prefabricated houses are mainly reflected in aspects such as short construction periods, controllable quality, energy efficiency and environmental protection, ease of maintenance, high cost-effectiveness, labor savings, high degree of assembly, and wide application scenarios.
Short Construction Periods: Prefabricated houses adopt a modular construction method, with manufacturing completed in factories and on-site assembly. Compared to traditional construction, the construction period can be significantly shortened, generally by more than 60%. Box-type buildings can even reduce the construction period by 50% - 70%. For example, in a public housing project in Shenzhen, Guangdong, the completion and delivery period was reduced from 2.5 to 3 years to 1 year; the 63 modules purchased by the UK from a Chinese factory were shipped and completed on-site hoisting in just two weeks after arrival.
Controllable Quality: Prefabricated houses are built like industrial products, with more detailed designs. The position of each steel bar can be precisely located, and errors and precision are controlled in millimeters, ensuring the quality of the houses.
Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection: Factories adopt parallel operations, combined with automated three-dimensional warehouses and intelligent production lines, and complete most construction processes in the factory, with only on-site casting connections. This approach significantly reduces noise, dust, construction waste, and traffic congestion at the construction site, making it more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
Ease of Maintenance: Modular buildings have the characteristic of being easy to maintain, providing convenience for subsequent use and management.
High Cost-Effectiveness: Prefabricated houses have a price advantage. For example, British merchants choose Chinese modular buildings because their prices are unbeatable.
Labor Savings: Overseas labor costs are high, and the modular construction method of prefabricated houses saves a large amount of labor on-site, making the cost recovery period more certain and faster. The on-site labor usage of box-type buildings accounts for only about 20% of the total labor usage, which is 10% - 15% less than that of panel-type prefabricated buildings and 30% - 50% less than that of brick-concrete buildings.
High Degree of Assembly: Most of the work for prefabricated houses can be moved to factories, improving production efficiency and building quality.
Wide Application Scenarios: Prefabricated houses can be widely used in various scenarios such as hotels, apartments, dormitories, office buildings, hospitals, and even data centers.
