Gizmag tells us a Spanish partnership of CSO Arquitectura and prefab home builder Torsan has developed a modular home that can be move-in ready three weeks afer it is ordered. It takes a week to produce the detailed drawings, the frame and paneling are completed over three days, and a …
As follow up to an article we posted June 19, 2012 about Broad Sustainable Building Corp. constructing the world’s largest skyscraper in 90 days from modular units, the project is about to get underway. TIME says the 2,749-foot, 220-story tower in China’s Hunan Province will contain apartments for 30,000, a …
TheAlmaTimes tells MHProNews the former Fleetwood manufactured home plant in Alma, Georgia that began production in 1993 and closed July 2009 as the result of bankruptcy will reopen as a modular commercial manufacturing facility. Titan Modular Systems plans to hire 100 workers. (Photo credit: TheAlmaTimes)
RidgefieldPatch reports a proposed affordable modular housing project in Ridgefield, Connecticut has met with stiff opposition from neighbors as well as a planning and zoning commission member. The four, 3.5-story buildings on .41 of an acre would have 11 units, 30 percent of which would be affordable housing to help …
GlobeNewsWire reports from Finland, Stora Enso and Skanska are collaborating to build a moderately priced modular housing project comprised of 36 BoKlok apartments in seven multi-story buildings. Skanska and IKEA developed the BoKlok concept in the mid-1990s, and 5,000 homes have been sold in Sweden. Stora Enso’s Hartola production unit …
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In its attempt to identify possible solutions for the estimated 20,000 people made homeless by Hurricane Sandy, some of whom may be without homes for months or years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is considering using modular stackable units to temporarily house residents of New York and New Jersey. …
According to ArchDaily, shipping containers are in great supply because it is more expensive to ship them back to China or Europe, than it is to make new ones in Asia. The advantages to using them are cost, durability, and strength as well as availability. The downsides include the coatings …
During the last five years New York City’s Bloomberg Administration has been developing a plan to make temporary housing quarters out of 40 foot shipping containers with a door and window at each end, a bedroom, kitchen, bath and living area in between. Each 480 square foot unit would be …
SearsHomes reminds us of their original prefabricated kit-built homes they sold 100 years ago. The Rodessa, a bungalow, had two bedrooms and just over 500 square feet, and sold for $907. in 1910, “cut and fitted” as the advertisement says. It was simple and practical and easy to produce quickly. …
BusinessDayLive tells MHProNews twelve million people in South Africa do not have adequate housing, so the government is putting together a private-public collaboration for modular housing. Duro, founded in 1955, has experience in developing building materials and built a 1,200 unit housing project in Angola. The state already buys shack …
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From Modular Home Builder comes word modular builder Blu Homes, which moved its operations from Massachusetts to an old airplane hangar in Vallejo, Calif., as we reported here Sept. 14, 2012, has purchased the assets of modern accessory dwelling maker Modern Cabana. The styles fit in with Blu’s modernistic designs. …
DailyCommercialNews reports from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada the first of 40 affordable two and three-bedroom modular housing units was sited in the Blairmoore neighborhood of Saskatoon. The $7.2 million project is receiving funding from the federal and provincial governments, and from their partnership with privately-held Innovative Residential, Inc., and the city …
The huerfanjournal reports from south central Colorado the Kaspia Group, a New Mexico contracting and real estate services company will begin producing modular homes in the old Kan Build site in Walsenburg, CO early next year. Specializing in affordable housing developments, Kaspia expects to hire 60-65 full time employees who …
WDAZ-TV reports from Grand Forks, North Dakota modular home builder Homark Homes is having trouble keeping up with demand for housing coming from the oil boom in western ND. Located just across the ND border in northwestern Minnesota, a strong Canadian dollar is bringing business from the north as well. …
ConstructionDigital reports from the United Kingdom after many months of collaborative research, Larkfleet has developed low-cost, lightweight, energy efficient modular housing. The Startlink Lightweight Building Systems (SLBS) homes weigh less than half of what a comparable site-built home would weigh. Evaporative cooling in the summer flows from the water retentive …
CFTK-TV reports from northernwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada the residents of Telkwa, BC have just dedicated an eight unit modular housing project for seniors and persons with disabilities. Managed and operated by the Telkwa Senior Housing Society, the homes are outfitted with special needs features and fixtures. The $1.3 million …
Reporting from New York City, observer says the return to normalcy in parts of the battered city, from the homes that burned to those that washed away, will be many months. Owners of one expensive high rise in lower Manhattan do not know when their units will be habitable, and …
Responding to Hurricane Sandy, in a letter to the editor in the Brooklyn Daily, M. Taeler suggests Floyd Bennett Field as a site to produce modular homes, and set up a community to house the chronic homeless and the victims of the hurricane. Now a park, the field was NYC’s …
JetsonGreen tells MHProNews M. Gerwind Architects, trying to close in on a net-zero energy home, has developed a narrow 145 foot long container dwelling with a cantilevered master bedroom. This 2,800 square foot modular unit has 140 feet of solar panels and is being sited in Boulder, Colo. Although they …
The DailyStatesman says the Bernie, Missouri Board of Aldermen turned down the recommendation of the city’s zoning committee to allow modular homes in all R-2 areas of the city. Five modular homes have been discovered in areas zoned only for single-family homes and duplexes. Alderman Tim Gage said the aldermen …
