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They are not necessarily any cheaper than traditional construction. The advantage of prefab only comes when you make several of them, something none of these guys have done yet. The labor onsite is saved, too, but someone still has to build it, so it depends on several factors if that saves anything.
Most of these prefabs run about $100-175 per sq ft, which isn't really cheap. I am working on a prefab now that we will get done for less than that.
Konyk's kit is about $265k for the uphoouse, without land or foundation. It's far from cheap.
The advantage to his design is that you only need a small foundation. Disadvantage is that no one knows how all that steel will be acoustically - like how loud the rain will be! We'll only know when one gets built.Here's another site to look at: