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Photos: A modular house-raising

A window is guided into place by carpenters assembling a component house by Green Building Technologies in Highland Park.

A window is guided into place by carpenters assembling a component house by Green Building Technologies in Highland Park.  (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune photo)

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Collectively called factory-built homes, they are built partially or completely in factories, then delivered to home sites by truck. We watched one come together in hours.

A modular house-raising

A framed window section is lowered into place as carpenters reach to steady it in the wind.  (Chris Walkerr/Chicago Tribune photo)

A modular house-raising

Driver Dan Oliver carries a framed section to the second floor.  (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune photo)

A modular house-raising

Neil Fortunato, president of Green Building Technologies, steps through a window opening as carpenters guide in a component of the home.  (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune photo)

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A modular house raising

An exterior view later that day shows the crew’s progress after only a few hours of assembling the component house.  (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune photo)

A modular house-raising

Carlos Venegas wears drywall stilts to finish the ceiling on a Green Building Technologies home.  (Dave Shields/Photo for the Chicago Tribune)

A modular house-raising

At right, Venegas puts mud on joints while drywalling the modular home.  (Dave Shields/Photo for the Chicago Tribune)

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