"prefabrication" is a term with many connotation, and products have been precast

ever since brick was baked for the tower of Babel. A house is only a composite of
numerous

there is a future for on site prefabrication and quantity on site production as well as
for prefabricated parts .

efficient mass produced walls, roofs, pipelines, doors, and window will help
reducethe cost, and economic prefabrication of a cheap shell will save money, too.
In the more developed countries, apartment houses are made of precast sections.

In Jamaica, a combine of jamaican entrepreneurs and a Puerti Rican building firm in

1961 put up a thousand houses of concrete precast on the site, claiming a saving of
15 per cent in labor cost per house. A two-bedroom house of 760 square feet sold
for 5530 and a three bedroom house 860 square feet for 6400

though experimentation should go on, especially in on site prefabrication and in the

prefabrication of parts and of core houses, most areas will have to rely on handicraft
for some time to come, and use of local labor and materials is still more economical
for most developing countries. The campaign to sell the exported prefab as the
proved product of the industrial agehas been stayed for the present, but its
energeteic salesmen are far from discouraged. In fact one can still see these agents
of industrial enterprise in nigeria, Latin America, and elsewhere, waiting for hie
hungry buyers to nibble.