Costar.com, a real estate group, reports on its website that a company named American Park ’n Swap recently purchased the industrial building once housing operations of Fleetwood Homes located in Glendale, California for $4 million, or approximately $33 per square foot. Fleetwood Liquidating Trust disposed of the building. Cavco purchased …
The Massachusetts-based Atrium Custom Homes announces the company is allowing would-be-homeowners to custom make their modular homes to meet their exact needs. In a release, the company pointed out some of the problems associated with an existing home and emphasizes the ability for homeowners to custom plan their modular homes. …
From Mississippi, the Lauren Leader-Call reports that several residents of Ellisville have received new modular homes with the help of the town’s HOME Investment Partnership grant. Ellisville was awarded $188,233 by HUD to reconstruct the homes. The article notes program funds are allocated to units of general local government on …
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The online bargain fashion site known as Gilt.com is offering a $12,500 prefab home, accoding to an item in the New York Daily News. According to the report, the members-only discount site teamed up with Dwell and Turkel Design to offer the homes at a price reduced from $25,000. A …
From California, the Santa Barbara Independent reports that Stillwater Dwellings is bringing more than 20 eco-friendly, prefabricated homes to the area. Designed in Seattle and built in a warehouse in Idaho, the first home took a little more than two months to construct. Once the modules are installed, and final …
EarthTechling reports that a new California home by Utah-based Irontown Homes is expected to receive LEED Platinum certification, the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest eco rating. The Los Altos home designed by LivingHomes and architect Ray Kappe, may actually exceed USGB’s point requirements. The company cites a climate-controlled factory manufacturing process …
California Modular Could Exceed Requirements for LEED Platinum Read More
A new feature on Google being called the Books Ngram Viewer provides a historical reference to any terms used frequently enough to show on its charts. The books searched go back to the 1500s. About 72 percent of the books included were written in English. For instance, the charts show …
FMI, the largest provider of management consulting, investment banking and research to the engineering and construction industry, reported that as of the 4th quarter, the Non-Residential Construction Index has been in positive territory for three quarters in a row. In its query, FMI found the long recession brought about many changes …
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ChinaDaily reports that an egg home that made its way through the annals of the internet is now gone from its parking space. The 6-square-meter mobile “egg home” that was built by its 24-year-old owner as a personal solution to the city’s sky-high rents may have been a tool in …
BostonSF.com reports that Westchester Modular Homes of Greater Boston recently announced its plans to build a new, state-of-the-art showroom and sales center along the highly-traveled Route 1 in Saugus, MA, designed to introduce modular home construction to the North Shore and beyond. The new building is expected to be completed …
From Lewiston, Maine the Sun Journal reports that KBS Building Solutions, a leader in the modular home industry, has shut down its Waterford plant and laid off 25 workers in a move that is being called temporary. According to the report, the company will move 20 people from the Waterford …
The Manufactured Housing Institute reports in its Week in Review that the Environmental Protection Agency recently announced new requirements for qualifying site-built and modular homes for ENERGY STAR, which will go into effect beginning next year. The Systems Building Research Alliance is in the process of revising the modular program …
EPA Announces New Energy Star Requirements for Modular Housing Read More
Solar Village Homes of Boulder, Colorado announced recently it has chosen Epoch Homes to manufacture the Solar Village line of energy-efficient systems-built homes. Epoch will build the Solar Village Prefab Homes in the six New England states, New York and New Jersey. “Epoch Homes is proud to add these cost …
From Washington State, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sent out notice to its readers that they may want to witness the assembly of Seattle’s first LEED Platinum modular home. Six boxes transported via truck from the factory in Idaho will be installed one-at-a-time by crane onto the foundation, forming this prefab demonstration home. …
From Pottstown, Pennsylvania The Mercury posted an item from Earthtalk asking if modular, prefab homes are better for the environment. Rob Sherman of Minneapolis wrote in, asking if a modular vacation home would be easier on the environment than building a traditional house from scratch. The response: prefabrication generates less …
The website EcoHomes ran a story this week on panelized concrete homes designed by Sarasota, Florida-based architect Jonathan Parks AIA, and how he has quietly been incorporating green features into the homes. The article noted that one house is oriented to capture and control as much daylight as possible to …
Panelized Homes Help Floridians Save Energy, Withstand Winds Read More
From Wisconsin comes an item from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on extra-sturdy houses constructed of glass. Simon Parrish, who developed the new construction method, spent about 20 years doing so. Parrish is production director for the Ambiente brand of manufactured housing. The process involves turning waste glass into a fine …
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