HOBSONS Bay residents may not be aware that a factory in Brooklyn is piecing houses together like Lego.

Modscape in Brooklyn has been running for three-and-a-half years building prefabricated rooms and houses.

Manager and owner Jan Byrne was inspired to bring the business to Australia after remembering trips to his uncle’s house in Denmark.

“I’ve had a fascination with it for years, my father is Danish and my uncle had a summer house, which is a prefab house,” he said.

Mr Byrne and his colleague originally worked in building high rises and were looking for a way to accelerate the process.

“(It’s) kind of come about as a synergy form those earlier and later thoughts,” he said.

Modscape has allowed consumers to order prefabricated rooms or even houses and can choose from a catalogue of completed designs.

“Typically we modify the designs in 95 per cent of cases to suit specific requirements.”

He said when consumers ordered a kitchen it would have everything in it including plumbing, sinks and appliances.

“When we come on site all we are doing is installing and connecting services,” he said.

“Ninety nine per cent of the work is completed in the factory.”

He said it generally took 12 weeks to be completed rather than the eight to 12 month process of conventionally building a house.

They also build prefabricated apartments and stack them on top of each other.

“It’s exactly the same as building a house, it’s just that we’re stacking the modules to create taller structures,” he said.

He said prefab housing was popular in Europe, North America and Asia and it was only a matter of time before it became a genuine alternative to efficient construction in Australia.