panelizing

panelizing
 n.— «Volunteers gave up an entire weekend last April for the “blitz build.” The frame of the house, which was built last winter inside a large warehouse, was moved to the site for this event. Volunteers then put the walls and roof on the frame over the course of the weekend, in a process called “panelizing.”» —“College club donates new house” by Kathy Laluk in Ithaca College Ithacan Online (Ithaca, New York) Oct. 11, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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