Sunday, July 28, 2013

One of New York City's First Pre-Fabricated Buildings Goes Up in Inwood



By Raillan Brooks

The word "prefabricated" often leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. It evokes shoddiness or disrepair. The memory of trailers set up for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, whose shoddy construction materials leached poison, is never far off. But prefabricated housing, if done right, has the potential to fix New York's housing problem. The Bloomberg administration has pumped lots and lots of time and effort into initiatives to bring so-called replicable "micro-units" to the city. Now one architecture firm is close to finishing an apartment block made entirely out of prefabricated pieces in Upper Manhattan. And they've made a video proving it.

Gluck+ Architects videotaped the final months of the construction process new apartment building at 4857 Broadway in Upper Manhattan. As you can see, no actual "construction" takes place. Rather they're just fitting the pre-made pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle. Relative to how quickly developers can usually put up a building the whole process moved at a breakneck speed. Fast Co. Design writer Sammy Medina explains that while there is still a ways to go from what we see in the video, prefabricating the constituent parts of the building elsewhere takes a lot of uncertainty out of onsite construction:

The modular construction forces the architects to make all design decisions ahead of time, meaning that the building blocks are shipped to the site with all their features and interior partitions preconfigured. This cuts down on on-site operations and the many mistakes that inevitably arise from them.

The building, consisting of 56 units, is expected to be completed in October.

10 comments:

  1. Were there any carpenters on that wonderful job ?

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  2. Probably not, and we're going to hire this company. Yours Truly;

    Ron Tutor.

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  3. The modular units will be made by slave labor overseas.

    There's already Carpenter locals out in rural New Jersey manufacturing this work.

    The units for the Atlantic Yards are being made in the Brooklyn Yard-- union but at a cut/shop rate; but this is obviously just a foot in the door. If NYC Carpenters can't or don't stop non-union mill work from being installed, why or how would they stop modular unit from China from being erected?

    http://www.usa.skanska.com/news--press/featured-news/atlantic-yards-b2-modular-1/

    Atlantic Yards B2 Modular

    Continuing our leadership in prefabricating building components, Skanska will build the tallest U.S. modular building in New York City, a pioneering development that will help advance efficient, safe and sustainable off-site construction. To do this, we have established a new modular building partnership to serve not only this first project, but eventually other buildings for other clients.


    You believed all those sell out Council Officials, the so-called leaders who never raise a fuss or step on toes-- they will be retiring soon, with full pensions & medical coverage, and the rest of us will be left with a living nightmare.

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  4. The idea of prefabricated building is good but it also has some complications. The architects need to be very experienced and able to build perfect blocks because you cannot make any change in it on site. Let's see how successful this prefabricated building becomes. Thanks for sharing this nice blog.

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    1. By the way prefabricated buildings have about zero complication and according to your point,changes has been made at the time of assembling after final decision it is build at on site place.So i don't think so that is a drawback of prefabricated buildings.

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