The Seattle Times reports longtime Seattle architect Gordon Walker’s contemporary modular home on Orcas Island arrived on two flatbed trucks, one carrying the steel frame, the other the side panels. The home was assembled in seven days. A practicing architect for 49 years, he says, “I can’t find anything in …
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MountainXpress reports that students from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (A B Tech) in Asheville, North Carolina, have built a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified house that they are selling to raise money for the school. The 280 square foot modular home, from the school’s Construction Management and …
Reuters reports the U.S. Energy Department’s Solar Decathlon competition resulted in an array of modular homes built by collegiate design teams from across the globe. The homes have to be between 600 and 1000 square feet, no taller than 18 feet, and solar powered. The CHIP (compact hyper-insulated prototype) House, …
Earth Techling reports that one of the entries in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011 is an E-Cube from Ghent University in Belgium. It is designed for people with limited construction experience who want highly efficient, modular homes that they can assemble themselves. Low on gadgetry, and made …
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Newswise says the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification Commission and Community Revitalization Commission has awarded a $2,445,000 grant to the University of Virginia (U.Va.) to design, develop and manufacture affordable, energy-efficient and disaster-recovery housing. The focus will be on economic revitalization in formerly tobacco-dependent communities by creating 50 jobs in state-of-the-art facilities …
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) are sponsoring a conference on developing green solutions for public housing. Slated for July 13-14 in Boston, Massachusetts, participants will include public housing authorities, green building movement members, and private energy sector …
Great Britain’s International Business Times says Jerseyville, Illinois, in the southern part of the state near St. Louis, Missouri, is the site for 32 new modular single-family green homes. Each 1,424 square foot three bedroom home in the Lexington Farms development has the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) …
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MHMSM.com has learned that HME Solar Solutions of the Netherlands has developed a factory-built home with a solar panel roof that will not only function as the sole energy source for the small vacation home, but can combine with other HME homes to generate energy for a community. The entire …
The Chronicle Herald of Canada reports from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, near Halifax, that a 1,500 square foot modular home has been termed the most energy efficient home in the Province by the designer, Axel Lerche. Before the house is sold in three to four months, it will be an educational …
InmanNews reports the modular house built on site at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry in 2008 has had another interior facelift. This year’s theme for the “Smart Home,” as it is called, is “green” and high tech. The upholstery on the couch is made of old automobile tires, and …
PRLog reports that Epoch Homes, a modular builder from Pembroke, New Hampshire, is collaborating with two UMassachusetts colleges to build a net zero energy modular home. The Massachusetts College of Art and Design Department of Architecture, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Engineering will work with Epoch to …
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The Santa Monica Daily Press reports that eleven new manufactured homes are being showcased as examples of green technology applied to manufactured housing. Built with a combination of federal funds and local redevelopment dollars as part of an affordable housing initiative, the units have solar cells for energy and water …
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The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that architect Michelle Kaufmann, termed “the Henry Ford of green homes” by the Sierra Club, says in order to attract people to energy efficient modular homes, we have to make it less expensive to live in than what people are paying now. She says we …
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Virtual Press Office reports from Great Britain that building officials are discovering modular building methods are gaining in popularity due to increased efficiency, sustainability and economy. Research by the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) on behalf of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) says 63 percent of traditional building …
From The Seattle Times in Washington State comes word that the head of one of the city’s most prominent real estate investment companies has begun a start-up to build modular apartments, military housing, motels, and student housing. Dale Sperling, former CEO and president of Unico Properties, which manages 15 million …
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My North reports a Traverse City, Michigan, contractor offers a 725 square foot modular home he can assemble in a day. Drew Craven uses Structural Insulated Panels (SIP) for the sides, a corrugated metal slanted roof concealing a second bedroom, and sliding barn doors that seal the home’s windows, but …
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Las Vegas, NV – April 27, 2011. At the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI)’s 2011 National Industry Awards in Las Vegas today, the honor for the best Production Manufactured Home of 1800 square feet or less went to Steven Lefler and Gary Brown of Modular Lifestyles, Inc. The Irvine, California, company …
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The Miami Herald reports an architect’s quest for an ecofriendly home led to a business designing and building modular homes. Michelle Kaufmann wanted smart design, energy efficiency, water conservation, recyclable materials and a healthy indoor environment in her own home. She and her husband have developed a series of modular …
Jetson Green reports HGTV has built a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certified modular house, one of only 40 in Colorado, that it plans to give away. The exterior is a combination of brick and thin stone veneers, 50 percent recycled fiber-cement siding, with recycled blown-cellulose. The …
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The Narragansett Patch reports that Marilyn and Nick Tassielli were so dismayed by problems encountered with their stick-built home in Avon, Connecticut, they looked for options. Nearing retirement in 1993, they researched modular home-builder Connecticut Valley Homes. Upon realizing the quality of construction involved, they designed their own and moved …
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