Chapter 6 Building Technology The strength of the prefabricated house lies in its popularity, its cheapness and the industrial base from which it operates. These are precisely the areas in which modern architecture is weakest. Modern architecture is unpopular, expensive and divorced from industrial production. The government thinks that housebuilders should invest in factory production and begin making reliable, high quality houses that are cheap to run as well as cheap to build. Colin Davies (The Prefabricated Home, Colin Davies. London, Reaktion Books, 2005) Abstract My aim is to investigate the most appropriate means of prefabrication to eco-standards that will enable my house design to be made into a reality. I have openly relied upon a variety of sources varying from journals, to specialist pro- fessionals, and organisations connected with this field of work. I summarise the choices of construction and building services as well as focusing upon advised solutions for my own house design as seen in Sect. 5.4. In that section, I recom- mend metal roller shutters over all windows and doors as a security measure. It amazes me that, whilst they have always been popular in Germany, they have never caught on in the UK. 6.1 Prefabrication Building with prefabricated systems encompasses the production and use of pre-planned components or modules as a solution to build with higher quality and more ef ficiency. It is associated with dimensional grids, high technical standards, lower costs and the repetition of components or objects. Prefabricated Systems. By Knaack, Chung-Klatte and Hasselbach. Published by 4 Prefabricated systems emerged after WW2 as a rapid means of housing the displaced and homeless. It was a different matter of urgency as compared with the present crisis, due to the destruction of buildings in our towns and cities. The problem is that today’s factory produced housing does not necessarily mean that the quality of provision is being improved. Meeting the demand means building © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 A. Sully, The Estate House Re-designed, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90397-2_6 239