Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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of this mechanical equipment is what I see as very
highly secure. You've got air-handling systems that
you don't want to be open to security issues. And
so, you know, having this built here and then
putting it on a skid, as they had mentioned, and
being shipped off, is a huge advantage.
Next slide. Just some simple statistics on
what is going on in industry. For the past several
years, the PPMOF usage or prepackaging
modularization has increased 90 percent in the heavy
industrial area. This concept cannot just be used
in just mechanical. It's being used in almost every
discipline. You've got structural systems now that
are being prefabricated and shipped in pieces.
You've also got the mechanical systems and even, you
know, you can see some of these homes that are being
built. You know, half of it is being built, shipped
to a site, and then put together. You know, a lot
of that was done in the Hurricane Katrina
redevelopment efforts.
And just some major areas, you know, you've
got the equipment, the piping, and structural
assemblies that I had mentioned.
In addition to the advantages, there are of
course, impediments to prefabrication and some of
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