prefabricate
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The tower crane also allows the crews to prefabricate some things on the ground, such as steel cages that are then hoisted up and set in place, Collins said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2016
Consolidated would prefabricate ships in the plant at Maywood, trans port parts 22 mi. by truck and assemble them in yards at Wilmington and Long Beach.
From Time Magazine Archive
By using automatic welding machines to prefabricate sections and then moving the sections into place with Chinese-designed cranes, the yard has cut building time on a ship from one year to seven months.
From Time Magazine Archive
Analysts have said it’s smart to ditch that requirement because these days most prefabricated homes aren’t moved after their initial placement.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Maaden erected prefabricated warehouses for the fertilizer and rigged piping systems to move corrosive sulfuric acid, a key ingredient in phosphate production, into stainless-steel tanker trucks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Beilharz is a builder and real estate developer who was already planning a new company creating prefabricated houses before the LA fires hit.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
Quadriplegic and bedridden in a prefabricated home, 36-year-old Li Xia can only move one finger and one toe -- yet he runs a high-tech farm in southwestern China using sensors, cameras and a computer.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
They took a thirty-five-foot section of corridor and created a cell block with a prefabricated wall.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Modular construction for apartments, or prefabricating parts of buildings in factories and then assembling them on-site, offers a way to possibly bring down costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
It involves prefabricating panels for use as part of walls, floors and roofs in a manufacturing plant and then sending them to a building site.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
When the Germans surrendered in World War H, we found they had been prefabricating subs.
From Time Magazine Archive
By prefabricating, De Long cut the total time to six months.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thousands of dollars went out the window when Resettlement Administration officials took to prefabricating concrete slabs for the houses, then couldn't find a way to join them.
From Time Magazine Archive
