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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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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Following a story that MHProNews last reported June 20, 2015 regarding UMH Properties, Inc.’s long-time plan to build either a manufactured or modular home community on 106 acres it owns in the Village of Coxsackie, New York, while UMH (NYSE:UMH) wants to move forward with the project, the village is …
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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina took out some 60,000 homes, the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) has determined the federal government poured over $3.2 billion into permanent homes for state residents, according to what sunherald tells MHProNews. Former COO for MDA’s disaster-recovery division, Jon Mabry, said, “When we received the money, …
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While home values dropped drastically for most of the nation following the housing bubble, the oil-producing states posted housing gains. With crude oil trading at half the price of a year ago, according to nationalmortgagenews, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Alaska may see home prices fall six to …
Arnon Rosan is the founder of EverBlock, an adult version of Legos, polypropylene blocks up to a foot long that lock together and stack with raised lugs much like Legos, as wired tells MHProNews. He currently makes them in 14 colors and three sizes with the largest one weighing two …
Undergraduate students at the New York City College of Technology are busy building a modular, environmentally conscious solar home to enter into the U. S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition this fall, according to nbcnewyork. The DURA house—diverse, urban, resilient, adaptable—is an open-concept, one-bedroom, net zero weather-resistant living space …
NYC Students Entering a Modular Home in Solar Decathlon Read More
Fourth quarter 2015 financial results for Skyline Corp (NYSE:SKY) indicate net sales from continuing operations increased eight percent over the same period last year, $49,605,000 over $46,040,000, resulting in a net loss of $149,000 versus a net loss the previous fiscal year Q4 of $1,672,000, according to prnewswire. The 2015 …
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Updating a story MHProNews last published April 17, 2015 regarding the expansion of the Clayton Bradley Academy on the campus of Clayton Homes in Maryville, Tennessee, the Class of 2030 and the Class of 2018 broke ground for the multipurpose building that will include a 600-seat gymnasium, ten additional classrooms, …
If Zad Roumaya has his way, the Cedars in south Dallas, Texas will be the site of a complex of 320 square-foot modular container homes in an area currently undergoing a transformation, according to dallasobserver. Once an area known for its stately Victorian homes, in the 1960s many of the …
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