Shippable Building System
With such a remote site, a prefabricated building system type with the capability of a 'kit of parts' that could designed and pieces fabricated in a controlled environment and could be loaded on a truck or shipping container. This system is only one option as to provide a remote island with a building. Main issue is to design a system to deliver the ‘kit of parts’ from the main land to the site.
Ease of Construction
- Materials and construction type that can be delivered without heavy equipment
- Typically 4’ wide by up to 10’ tall
- SIPs – Structural Insulated Panel, Pre-manufactured walls an panels
- Designed to be handled and installed by 2 people
- Design and construction time frame could be within 6 months
- Valuable on-site construction time, labor, and resources

SIPs wall panels - ease and speed of construction SIPs panels
On company that provides a design and shippable building system is:
Cabin Fever www.cabinfever.us.com
A design Development and manufacturing company
specialized in prefab “system built” structures

example of a small unit by Cabin Fever construction / assembly of Cabin Fever's unit

Cabin Fever's fabrication shop - controlled environment for precision section detail of unit

[Cabin Fever has recently paired with an architect to offer more designed prefab component houses, at $50 a square foot. The title of an article in "Builder" - "Cabin fever and Ed Binkley Offer Affordable, Eco-Friendly Panelized Homes" touts the green aspects of the project, but I didn't find any support for this claim. I wonder what makes these designs "eco-friendly," and what chemicals go into the panels. - Kristina]
Comments (1)
Brittany Glover said
at 9:33 pm on Feb 1, 2011
might also be cool to think about inflatable systems.
Also found this website might be helpful for more ideas about flat panel systems:
http://weburbanist.com/2008/01/13/more-creative-furniture-for-cramped-urban-living-20-pieces-of-ingenious-flat-pack-urban-furniture/
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