
Everyday Engineering: Understanding the Marvels of Daily Life
Platform-Framed Housing Construction
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S1 • E4 Nov 11, 2015 30mTurn to the third major technique for building a house: platform-framed construction, which is a flexible arrangement of lightweight modular floor platforms, wall panels, and roof trusses. This efficient approach has been widely used in the U.S. for over a century.