While in previous years, students in construction classes at South Sioux City High School made clocks or built cabinets, this year, according to what siouxcityjournal tells MHProNews, they are building a modular home. Instructor Joe Krajicek said practicality was the momentum behind the new project. “We started looking at ways …
MHPronews has learned from constructionenquirer that modular building specialist Caledonian Modular in the UK is closing its Driffield manufacturing facility in East Yorkshire and transferring those operations to its Newark plant, with minimal loss of jobs. A spokesman for Caledonian Modular said: “Caledonian has ambitious plans to double revenue over …
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MHProNews has learned from dezeen the Shelter Unit for Rapid Installation (SURI) was originally designed to provide modular housing after earthquakes, but is now being used to house the millions fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Developed by Spain’s Surricatta Systems, additional units can be added to …
Spanish Modular Units Housing Refugees from Middle East and African Conflicts Read More
MHProNews last published a story on July 10, 2015, regarding the effort to site modular homes around Dublin, Ireland to ease homelessness of families who have been living in one-room motels for up to two years without cooking facilities. By exhibiting six samples of modular housing, the Dublin Region Homeless …
While MODS (Modular on Demand Structures) International of Grand Chute, Wisconsin has sold 300 modular homes worldwide converted from shipping containers, Jose Atencio and his girlfriend, Aubrey Lorge, are combining four of the units to make a 1,100 square foot home to be sited in Menasha, WI, the first of …
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The National Modular Housing Council (NMHC) tells MHProNews that 3,509 modular homes were shipped in the second quarter of 2015, a drop of one percent from the same quarter of 2014. Compared to the second quarter of 2014, 20 states revealed increases and 12 states lost shipment numbers, while in …
With the need in the United Kingdom of 250,000 homes per year to meet the demand, globalconstructionreview is telling MHProNews a new modular home is touted as being ready to occupy in only eight weeks from start to finish, half the normal 16 weeks to build, according to building research …
With concerns over the high cost of housing in New Zealand, the Auckland Home Show emphasized smaller and more economical options, according to stuff.co.nz. One of the small-living products was modular Ecotech homes, imported from China and then assembled on site. The process from order to completion takes four months. …
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Calling it the tallest modular wood structure in the country, Professional Building Systems, Inc. two weeks ago began stacking the 42 apartments that will serve as affordable housing for students of New York Medical College in Paterson, New Jersey. Standing 60 feet and six inches tall, the building will provide …
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While many of the collegiate entries in the U. S. Department of Energy’s Biennial Solar Decathlon are cost-effective, energy efficient and attractive homes targeted to baby boomers and growing middle-class families, the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) team is targeting migrant farm workers, as mnn tells MHProNews, with a …
Following a story MHProNews last published April 10, 2015 regarding the continuing hit-and-miss saga of Forest City Ratner’s 34-story modular tower at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, B2, curbed.ny reports a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request reveals there was considerable water damage in April and July, 2014. However, problems …
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Twin Town Homes was incorporated in Maine 60 years ago and Bob Huatori has been there for 50 of those years, starting as a lot boy when he was 20, becoming president 25 years ago, and inheriting the business in 2006 when the son of the founder, Hayward Luck, passed …
A public-private collaboration between the Maryville-Alcoa-Blount County Parks and Recreation Commission and Clayton Homes has resulted in a first class 18-hole disc golf course being developed on the 240-acre campus of the nation’s largest builder of manufactured and modular homes. The facility, called The Claytons, covers 120 acres, and has …
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In a housing development that may have potentially dangerous international political implications, U. S. intelligence has determined that Russia is setting up an air traffic control tower and modular housing for hundreds of personnel at an air base near the Syrian Mediterranean port of Latikia. Since Russia has requested rights …
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India’s Architect Shekar Ganti won an architectural competition for skyscraper designs for Mumbai, the largest city in India with a population of 18.4 million, a port city with a plethora of shipping containers. Ganti uses a supporting structure to stack eight unit-high levels of modular shipping containers, like boxes stacked …
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As they have been doing for ten years, the freshmen class of Roanoke College in Virginia wields hammers, saws and T-squares to build a modular home for someone in need in the Roanoke Valley, this year for an immigrant family originally from Burundi, Africa, according to roanoke. Working with Habitat …
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The Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) informs MHProNews that both houses of the legislature voted to allow modular buildings and housing to be built four stories high, or 60 feet. Several of TMHA’s members expressed an interest in building modular hotels, multi-family and assisted living facilities in order to compete …
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Following a story MHProNews last reported Aug. 11, 2014 regarding an affordable modular housing unit being built in Kips Bay in New York City, applications are now being taken for 14 of the planned 55 modular apartments. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg had waived zoning regulations at a city-owned property at …
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A pioneer and innovator in the manufactured home industry in Georgia for over 35 years, William “Bill” Edwards passed away in Moultrie, Georgia Aug. 31, 2015. He co-founded Destiny Industries, Inc. in 1978 as a HUD Code manufacturer, building a distribution network across the southeastern U. S. with sales growing …
The upcoming byelection in Canning, in Western Australia, will see a candidate for the Greens party who is a strong supporter of factory-built home construction, according to communitynews.au. Vanessa Rauland, a Curtin University lecturer, renewable energy advocate and small business owner has a background in low carbon urban development, and …
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