Demountable buildings produced for the Singapore Housing and Development Board, beams with 6ft. cantilever overhangs.
should be thought out in terms of the process and the procedure of manu- facturing the buildings, so that the site can be arranged in a sequence allowing buildings to be brought on site and erected immediately on pre- prepared foundations without delays. Delays are particularly associated with change of thinking on the site and a departure from the chosen programme due to site difficulties.
This again points to the importance of the modular system since it should be possible in any one range of build- ings of a similar nature to adjust the site programme and delivery of build-
They consist mainly of 30ft. span box
dule, should still allow the prefabrica- tor to manufacture the panels irres- pective of the final buildings into which the panels are to be fixed.
In conclusion, it can be said that prefabrication in timber is an extreme- ly useful answer to a number of build-
ings which were intended for one part of the site to be equally used at any part of the site and the necessity of careful planning before the job com- mences cannot be stressed too strong- ly. It is often possible that one or two types of buildings, in terms of span and accommodation, will satisfying problems, but once a modular a large number of requirements and the least number of different sizes of spans in any one complex the more successful the operation is likely to be.
It is probably not possible to say that all buildings in one complex will be of one span, but buildings of differ- ent spans, if designed to the same mo-
system is chosen it must be adhered to. This, as previously explained, will permit a larger proportion of the job. to be factory-made well in advance of site works and will thus reduce the actual erection time to a fraction of that normally necessary for "on site" construction.
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