“Since we were building in a warehouse out of the elements, our construction was controlled, which allowed us to keep the panels completely square.” “We built everything on a table four feet off the ground,” said Stephen Bradford, South Valley Drywall project manager. While it would normally take a year to complete the enclosure of an 831,000-square-foot hospital, prefabrication helped cut the hospital construction timeline by more than seven months. Prefabricated CFS exterior wall panels for the Exempla Saint Joseph Replacement Hospital, Denver, Colorado, were assembled in a factory with green board (a type of drywall or gypsum board that is more water resistant than standard drywall) exterior insulation and interior spray-on insulation. It’s the manufacture of sections of a building at an off-site location, delivered to and assembled at the job site. Prefabrication is a subset of off-site construction, according to Northgate Industries. The outputs include componentized, panelized and modularized elements, which are frequently deployed in the service of structural, enclosure, service and interior partition systems. Off-site Construction involves the process of planning, designing, fabricating, transporting and assembling building elements for rapid site assembly to a greater degree of finish than in traditional piecemeal on-site construction, according to the National Institute of Building Sciences.
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