Gavin and Garrett Wright announce the opening of their new modular home sales center, G & G Home Center in Liberal, Kansas, and invite everyone to their grand opening Thursday, June 11 for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Their father, Darrell Wright established D & H Homes in Garden City, Kansas in …
Modules for a 700 unit apartment complex set for Fox Creek, Alberta, Canada will be built in a company-run factory near Shanghai, China and assembled on site, with the first phase of 48 suites, each 980 square feet, to be ready for occupancy in early 2016. Calgary’s Stack Modular is …
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In manufactured housing news, L. A. “Tony” Kovach defines path to revitalize the MH industry, while one MH supplier picks new head, another MH producer closes, HUD Code production continues rising, MHC reverting to stick-built homes, Cavco seeks tax abatement, AZ MHC closing, Sen. Donnelly and MHI’s Jennison defend H.R. …
Champion Home Builders, Inc. of Troy, Michigan announced today that Keith Anderson, interim CEO since Jan. 2015, has been named President and CEO of the producer of manufactured and modular homes and commercial buildings. Having joined the company’s Board of Managers in 2013, he served as president and CEO of …
The Manufactured and Modular Home Association of Minnesota informs MHProNews its 2015 Spring Conference kicks off the evening of June 8 in Plymouth, MN with an outdoor reception. Workshops during the Conference include: 2015 Session Update and Special Session Manufactured Home Sales, Required Forms, Laws, Installation Standards, and Licensing Reqirements …
Australian modular builder Ecoliv built a show home for the 2014 Sustainable Living Festival, according to treehugger. It features numerous green attributes including a vertical garden at the front entryway, a dry-tolerant garden fed with greywater and water cachement, a 2 kilowatt grid-connected solar system and solar hot water, electric …
MHProNews has learned Dowling Construction Co. in Oshkosh, Wisconsin lost its entire 25-person construction staff in 2008 in the wake of the housing bubble. The company was not able to hire anyone until they brought on two employees last year; they are now up to five workers, and have branched …
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A plan to modify 25 shipping containers into modular housing units that would each be subdivided into three or four living spaces of 40 to 53 square feet to house the homeless in Oahu, Hawaii has been announced by Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell. The aim is to provide temporary living …
Shipping Containers will become Modular Housing for the Homeless in Hawaii Read More
A Calgary, Alberta, Canada company that is building a modular motel in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada from steel shipping containers has plans to repeat the concept in the small town of Brudenheim near Fort Saskatchewan in central Alberta. Rhys Kane, business development director for Ladacor, says, “You can modify these …
A four-bedroom, two-story, Cape Cod modular house built by dozens of high school students at Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS) over the course of four academic years was finally sold and sited on the new owners foundation in Durham, Maine. A couple moving back from out of state …
The Giles County High School Technology Center Building Trades in Pearisburg, Virginia west of Roanoke is putting the final touches on a modular home that will be trucked to a site June 26 where a father and son will move into the home in August, according to roanoke. The 1,200 …
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The U. S. news this week was dominated by the flooding that ravaged Texas, leading to the loss of some 30 lives, 4,000 damaged homes and millions of dollars in damages. In manufactured housing news, residents at an MHC threaten to move because of high utilities, UMH acquires another MHC, …
Swedish architect Jonas Wagell has designed a modular home that is delivered flat-packed and requires only two days to assemble on site. The design includes an insulating polystyrene core clad with plywood or plastic laminate. The Mini House modules consist of prefabricated walls, framing, roofing and trim-less windows. Wagell tells …
Brisbane’s Queensland (Australia) University of Technology researchers Karen Manley and Dale Steinhardt report 84 percent of Sweden’s homes contain some prefabricated wood elements, far beyond the under five percent for the UK, Australia and the United States. In between are the Netherlands with 20 percent of all new housing using …
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Four much-needed modular duplex rental units have been added to the Lower Sioux Community housing stock for tribal member families in southwest Minnesota. Known as Lower Sioux Estates, construction of the three and four-bedroom, two bath units began in the fall of 2014 following the application in 2012. With funding …
While many may think of the tiny house movement as the province of hipsters, artists and young professionals who eschew the world of McMansions and material goods, there are a number of enclaves nationwide for the chronically homeless and disabled that speak to efficiency and quality of life. Eugene, Oregon’s …
Following a story we first posted May 18, 2015 regarding a development in North Platte, Nebraska that will include modular housing for low-to-moderate income residents, nptelegraph informs MHProNews that nine developers have shown interest in building 21 units of the 43 DEVCO intends to complete with the $344,000 funding. Called …
MHProNews has learned ATRM Holdings, Inc., (NASDAQ:ATRM) which bought modular manufacturer KBS of Maine in April, 2014, has completed filings to become current with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting requirements, and has made operational changes which it says will improve its performance for the remainder of 2015. Based in …
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A modular home being tested in Germany is controlled totally by a smart phone, generates enough energy from solar panels on the roof to power houses on either side and can be assembled in one day. At the end of the test, B10, as the house is known, will be …
While 90 shipping containers have been repurposed to make the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Khartoum, Sudan, and 86 containers have created the eight-story Travelodge Uxbridge Central Hotel in London, they are being reinvented in the Tampa Bay (FL) area as modular taverns and restaurants. Tampa architect Brandon Hicks …
