Global Industry Analysts, Inc. estimates the global prefabricated housing market will hit 829,000 units by 2017. DigitalJournal tells MHProNews.com the U.S. and UK have the majority share of the market, but Australia and New Zealand are the pioneers in the Asian market, although Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea have burgeoning …
This 1,400 square foot modular home in Wimberley, Texas,has three bedrooms, two baths, and lots of deck space. Produced by Ma Modular of Austin, TX the home has Energy Star appliances and HVAC, 2X6 exterior wall studs, a Galvalume double-lock standing-seam metal roof, Gerkin windows, and other energy efficient features. …
In an op-ed piece in Statesman of Austin, Texas, Ed Wendler, Jr. says the most important issue in the upcoming city council elections should be affordable family housing. As a developer in a city where rents increased 7.2 percent last year and are expected to continue rising the next three …
USAToday tells MHProNews.com sustainable, energy-efficient home-building has increased in the wake of actor Brad Pitt’s founding of Make It Right, a response to the housing needs of victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Living Homes of California has developed a modular 1,232 square foot home with three bedrooms and …
According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), MHProNews.com has learned a survey taken by McGraw-Hill Construction Company reveals green home building accounted for 17 percent of the residential market in 2011, but that figure is expected to increase to between 29 and 38 percent in four years. In …
DunedinPatch in Florida tells MHProNews.com in looking at five ‘green’ developments in Dunedin, the Glencairn Cottages stand out as a modular home neighborhood two blocks from downtown. Each of the fourteen homes have 1,500 to 2,000 square feet, attached garages, gourmet kitchens, and energy-efficient appliances, insulation, pipes and ductwork. Built …
A student-led team from the University of Calgary has been chosen to take part in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon for the third consecutive time, pitting its unique housing concept against another Canadian team and entries from across the United States and around the world. Team Alberta’s concept …
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According to the Chronicle-Express, New York’s Neighborhood and Rural Preservation Program that helps people replace aging mobile homes with energy-efficient manufactured homes may be eliminated. MHProNews.com has learned Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it will save the state $12 million. The Keuka Housing Council (KHC) in Yates County has been helping …
MHProNews.com has learned of a program in Montana to replace pre-HUD Code mobile homes with new, Energy Star-rated manufactured homes in the Great Falls area. The Sun Prairie subdivision outside Great Falls has 240 factory-built homes, many of them older models, where NeighborWorks Montana conducted an open house displaying a …
MHProNews has learned from WBIRTV in Knoxville, Tennessee of a collaborative effort between the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)and Clayton Homes of Maryville, TN. Clayton’s total i-House production in the TVA region will have upgraded windows, thicker insulation, heat pumps, power saving lighting, and Energy Star appliances. TVA will offer a …
According to an October survey of 1,500 homeowners conducted byYahoo Real Estate, Origination News tells MHProNews.com one-third of the respondents know someone who has been through foreclosure, and 51 percent say the federal government should do more to assist distressed borrowers. Twenty-seven percent said the government should do no more, …
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As a follow-up to our story Nov 8. 2011, MHProNews.com has learned from MLive in Michigan that the first phase of the Smith Village Neighborhood development of 27 modular homes was completed as scheduled, Dec. 31, 2011. Champion Homes and Russell Building Group are constructing 83 dwellings in Flint, MI …
A report from the BOI Fair 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand, says the Siam Cement Group (SCG) of Thailand is looking to invest five billion dollars in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, countries where it already has a strong presence. As BusinessMirror tells MHProNews.com, in keeping with the …
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Navien Instantaneous or Tankless Water Heaters, recently announced a voluntary recall of several tankless water geaters. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. The heaters …
Manufactured home builders have long been known to provide cutting-edge energy efficiency options in the homes they offer the public. Hillcrest in Bullhead City, Arizona recently staked out its position to energy efficiency and green living. The company, in cooperation with Hallmark-Southwest Corporation, a California based manufactured home builder, announced …
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ThePostandCourier tells MHProNews the Southern Palms MHC in Ladson, South Carolina, just north of Charleston is promoting Cottage homes of 1,056 to 1,400 square feet for vacationers and those seeking smaller dwellings. Owned by Jensen Communities of Connecticut, which operates 30 MHCs in eight states, the age 55-plus community offers …
SFGate reports a Massachusetts company is opening a factory on Vallejo’s Mare Island at the site of a former naval base just north of San Francisco. Close to the port of Oakland, and drawing on a nearby workforce of people skilled in home construction and high tech manufacturing, Blu Homes …
GreenProphet reports that students at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, have designed a solar powered modular home to compete in the Solar Decathlon next year. However, the upheaval of the Arab Spring has led to new leadership in Egypt, and funding to enter the competition next fall in Spain …
CanadaWire reports Innovative Composites International,, Inc., of Toronto has inked a deal to supply Brazil S.A. with $160 million worth of EcoScape modular homes over the next three years. In the agreement with Brazilian contractor Millenium Brasil Limitada and consultant Green Intelligence Corporation, the large project homes will be shipped …
ConnecticutCollege reports its steel prefabricated house in New London, CT, manufactured by General Houses, Inc., of Chicago will be disassembled and shipped to Milner + Carr in Philadelphia, where each panel will be cleaned and restored. Built in 1933 for Winslow Ames, founding director of the New London Lyman Allyn …
