Chinese home builders targeting U.S., Canadian markets
Chinese factory home and office builders are targeting world markets, including “North America.” Western style literature uses key buzz words: low cost construction, green building, sustainable, easy...
View ArticleLiving Green Asks Just How Green are Today’s Modulars?
From the web site Living Green comes a story that looks at the history of modular homes and just how green they are. The modular, as the article points out, has been the “net big thing” in home...
View ArticleAustralia: Moving Manufacturing to Modular
Due to a number of factors, manufacturing has declined in Australia, especially in the food and automobile industries, and two staff members of Curtin University have suggested resources be turned to...
View ArticleDisaster Relief Housing Prototype Sited in Brooklyn
Updating a story we first published May 22, 2013 regarding proposed modular disaster relief housing by Garrison Architects, a five module prototype has been installed in Brooklyn. Over the next couple...
View ArticleGizmag says top sustainable housing includes prefabricated homes
Having a sustainable green home in today’s housing market can mean more than just having solar panels. It can often mean technology and better quality building components. With sustainability and...
View Article$2,500 Bamboo and Wood House Measures 861 Square Feet
Cambodia’s two-story pilot Framework House, built of bamboo and wood, was initially aimed at families afflicted with HIV who are in poor health, but will now be targeted generally to those with low...
View ArticlePain, Pleasure, Persuasion, Honesty, and Sustainable MHVille Profits
There are precisely three ways to influence any organization of whatever size. Influence can only occur: From within an organization, from outside of a given group or from a combination of both. That’s...
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