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To: mishedlo who wrote (60472)	8/22/2006 9:01:40 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 306849

Problems like this are partially due to design (or cheap design with a lack of utility conduits), and partly due to the problems of construction and inspection inherent in stick-built homes built in-site. Lennar does build cheap homes at "popular prices" as they might say. Some builders like Pardee avoid these quality problems by having most of the utility-rich portions of each home built in a factory. This way there are no weather delays, part of each module are assembled by robotics, and each home segment can be built on a line with jigs and other aids which assure accuracy. While most of the assembly techniques and materials used are identical, they come out better when built in a factory setting than on-site. .