Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) industry members participated in a high-level briefing on Capitol Hill today focused on high energy performance in manufactured and modular homes. Emanuel Levy, Systems Building Research Alliance, and Kevin Clayton, Clayton Homes, Inc., presented to a standing-room-only audience. The briefing addressed “manufactured” housing, built in a factory to federal standards (the “HUD Code”), and  “modular” housing, made with prefabricated components and assembled on site to local code. The latest research and innovation to make housing more affordable for more American home buyers and more sustainable for everyone’s benefit was provided in addition to the many benefits of factory-built housing. Read more at http://www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com/blogs/industryvoices/mhi-briefs-congress-on-finance-and-energy-issues-for-manufactured-housing