Prefabricated Buildings. Modular buildings, commonly called prefabricated buildings, are made from all the same materials and meet all the same building International Building Codes (IBC) as conventionally built structures. The difference is the process.
Gold Standard Act. The Gold Standard Act of the United States was passed in 1900 (approved on March 14) and established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism (which had allowed silver in exchange for gold). It was signed by President William McKinley.
Gold standard can refer to the criteria by which scientific evidence is evaluated. For example, in resuscitation research, the gold standard test of a medication or procedure is whether or not it leads to an increase in the number of neurologically intact survivors that walk out of the hospital.