Prefabricated Commercial Buildings
McDonalds uses prefabricated structures for their buildings, and set a record of constructing a building and opening for business within 13 hours (on pre-prepared ground works).
In the UK, the major supermarkets have each developed a modular unit system to shop building, based on the systems developed by German cost retaillers Aldi and Netto.
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