Modular homes

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On-Site vs. Off-Site: a Total Cost Analysis

Builder Opening New Facility

Clayton Homes is opening a facility in Westmoreland, Tenn., set to begin operations in 2020, to manufacture trusses…

Developers and owners can join AIA's 2030 commitment to create carbon neutral buildings, developments, and renovations;  new concrete manufacturing technique that may help reverse advance of climate change, Skender and Z Modular coming to Chicago, and more... 

This Week's Codes and Standards, April 22

Los Angeles-based tech company Cover designs structures using computer algorithms. Its latest project seeks to make designing and building accessory dwelling units (ADUs) easier and less expensive.

Algorithmic ADU

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Exclusive Research: The Off-Site Argument

New LEED credit for timber traceability, ICC code releases for repurposed shipping containers, San Francisco clears ADU permit backlog, tech keys to affordable housing, and a 3D-printed 2,000 square-foot home

This Week's Codes and Standards, March 25

Modular home building is a construction process that may prove to have a lasting solution for the current affordability crisis, as startups bring this manufacturing method to multifamily construction. 

Modular's 'Tipping Point'

Codes organizations to develop new guidelines for shipping containers as building components, free rooftop solar panels to qualifying NOLA residents, Lower Manhattan's coming streetscape transformation pilot program report, NYC's modular construction affordable housing project

This Week's Codes and Standards, March 18

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Clayton Homes Launches 'Prefabulous' Campaign

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Innovating to Cut Costs

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Modular Homes Hotter Than Ever

Orange loudspeaker | Builder interview includes buyer demand, skilled labor shortage, tight land, development and regulatory hurdles, interest rate increases, and first-time entry-level buyers

Builder's Housing Q&A

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