Fertigbau

Buildings have been built in one place and reassembled in another throughout history. This was especially true for mobile activities, or for new settlements. Schloss Elmina, the first Sklavenfestung in Westafrika, was also the first European prefabricated building in Sub-Afrika südlich der Sahara.^1: 93 In Nordamerika, in 1624 eines der ersten Gebäude at Kap Ann was probably partially prefabricated, and was rapidly disassembled and moved at least once. John Rollo described in 1801 earlier use of portable hospital buildings in the Westindische Inseln.² Possibly the first advertised prefab house was the "Manning cottage". A London carpenter, Henry Manning, constructed a house that was built in components, then shipped and assembled by British emigrants. This was published at the time (advertisement, South Australian Record, 1837) and a few still stand in Australia.³ One such is the Friends Meeting House, Adelaide.⁴⁵ The peak year for the importation of portable buildings to Australia was 1853, when several hundred arrived. These have been identified as coming from Liverpool, Boston and Singapur (with Chinese instructions for re-assembly).⁶ In Barbados the Mobiliar Haus was a form of prefabricated building which was developed by emancipated slaves who had limited rights to build upon land they did not own. As the buildings were moveable they were legally regarded as bewegliche Sachen.⁷

In 1855 during the Krim-Krieg, after Florenz Nachtigall wrote a letter to Die Zeiten, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was commissioned to design a prefabricated modular hospital. In five months he designed the Renkioi-Krankenhaus: ein Krankenhaus mit 1,000 Patienten, mit Innovationen in den Bereichen Hygiene, Belüftung und einer Spültoilette.⁸ Fabricator William Eassie constructed the required 16 units in Docks von Gloucester, shipped directly to the Dardanellen. Nur von März 1856 bis September 1857 verwendet, reduzierte es die Sterblichkeitsrate von 42 Prozent auf 3,5 Prozent.

The world's first prefabricated, pre-cast panelled apartment blocks were pioneered in Liverpool. A process was invented by city engineer John Alexander Brodie, whose inventive genius also had him inventing the football goal net. The tram stables at Walton in Liverpool followed in 1906. The idea was not extensively adopted in Britain, however was widely adopted elsewhere, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Prefabricated homes were produced during the Goldrausch in the United States, when kits were produced to enable Californian prospectors to quickly construct accommodation. Homes were available in kit form by mail order in the United States in 1908.⁹

Prefabricated housing was popular during the Zweiter Weltkrieg due to the need for mass accommodation for military personnel. The United States used Quonset-Hütten as military buildings, and in the United Kingdom prefabricated buildings used included Nissenhütten and Bellman-Hangars. 'Prefabs' were built after the war as a means of quickly and cheaply providing quality housing as a replacement for the housing destroyed during der Blitz. The proliferation of prefabricated housing across the country was a result of the Burt-Komitee and the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944. Under the Ministerium für Arbeit Notfallfabrik hergestellt housing programme, a specification was drawn up and bid on by various private construction and manufacturing companies. After approval by the MoW, companies could bid on Council led development schemes, resulting in whole estates of prefabs constructed to provide accommodation for those made homeless by the War and ongoing Aufschalgsabstand.¹⁰ Almost 160,000 had been built in the UK by 1948 at a cost of close to £216 million. The largest single prefab estate in Britain¹¹ was at Schöne Vale (South Liverpool), where more than 1,100 were built after World War 2. The estate was demolished in the 1960s amid much controversy as the prefabs were very popular with residents at the time.

Amersham Prefab (COAM)-Vorraum mit Festbrennstofffeuer-

Prefabs were aimed at families, and typically had an entrance hall, two bedrooms (parents and children), a bathroom (a room with a bath)  — which was a novel innovation for many Britons at that time, a separate toilet, a living room and an equipped (not tailliert in the modern sense) kitchen. Construction materials included steel, aluminium, timber or Asbest, depending on the type of dwelling. The aluminium Geben Sie B2 ein prefab was produced as four pre-assembled sections which could be transported by lorry anywhere in the country.¹²

Amersham Prefab's Kitchen (COAM)- mit Belling-Herd, Ascot-Waschheizung und Kühlschrank

The Universal House (pictured left lounge diner right) was given to the Freilichtmuseum Chiltern after 40 years temporary use. The Mark 3 was manufactured by the Universal Housing Company Ltd, Rickmansworth.

The United States used prefabricated housing for troops during the war and for GIs returning home. Fertig classrooms were popular with UK schools increasing their rolls during the Baby-Boom of the 1950s and 1960s.

Many buildings were designed with a five-ten year life span, but have far exceeded this, with a number surviving today. In 2002, for example, the city of Bristol still had residents living in 700 examples.¹³ Many UK councils have been in the process of demolishing the last surviving examples of Second World War prefabs in order to comply with the British government's Anständiger Heimstandard, das 2010 in Kraft trat. In jüngster Zeit gab es jedoch eine Wiederbelebung der vorgefertigten Bauweisen, um die derzeitige Wohnungsnot im Vereinigten Königreich auszugleichen