building houses

[Do228]

Which terms can be used here?

When building houses, ................. are much more efficient than the traditional stone-on-stone or brick-on-brick technique.

prefabs
finished parts
pre-assembled components
pre-fabricated components

 

[GoesStation]

None of the proposed terms works. The process may be more efficient, not the materials used.

 

[J&K Tutoring]

GoesStation: Are you suggesting that Do228 merely change technique to process? I wouldn't consider any of the proposed terms as materials. The components would be made up of perhaps many different materials.

 

[J&K Tutoring]

Which terms can be used here?

When building houses, ................. are much more efficient than the traditional stone-on-stone or brick-on-brick technique.

prefabs
finished parts
pre-assembled components
pre-fabricated components

1. First, you might want to identify the type of efficiency you are talking about. Is it time efficiency, energy efficiency, materials-use efficiency, or something else? Perhaps all? You may also be thinking of cost efficiency, but we wouldn't typically use efficiency to talk about saving money. Cost effective would be a good term to use in that case.

2. Stone-on-stone and brick-on-brick are practically the same thing; certainly from a grammar perspective. I suggest you broaden your scope by using 'traditional methods'.

3. I suggest: Building houses using pre-fabricated components is a more efficient than traditional methods.