Tag: home builders
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Energy Efficient Homes – Saginaw Sunset
Jim Guild and Nunzie Gould don’t just want to build places to live. They want to create homes that live forever. They approach every project with a commitment not only to their clients, but to community, and the environment. They think deeply not only about the layout of the house, but how what they are…
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The Sensible Approach to Sustainable Housing
Green technology is amazing. You have heard it all. Green houses, sustainable homes, solar panels, eco-friendly fuel, and so on. All that new green technology (or greentech) is growing in popularity and providing all the necessary tools for us to “save the world”. Green ways of waste disposal, green ways of handling your rubbish, and…
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High-End Prefab Homes That Are Easy to Assemble
AVAVA Systems from California has recently unveiled Britespace, a high-end, prefab home that comes in a flat pack and is extremely easy to assemble. It’s also made of sustainable materials and has impressive seismic strength. It comes in three sizes, namely 264, 352 and 480 sq ft, and offers a great choice to those wishing…
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Modular Home Expands to Meet Your Needs
The Portuguese design firm Appleton & Domingos recently designed the so-called Treehouse Riga, which is a modular home that can be easily adapted to the owner’s needs. The designs were created for the modular homebuilder Jular. Given that it’s a prefab home, there’s less construction waste as compared to traditional building methods, and expanding it…
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Net Zero Prefab Home Built in California
Mark Jacobson, a professor at Stanford University, California recently commissioned the Canadian firm Bone Structure to build him a prefab net-zero home. And the result is shaping up to be quite astounding. He chose the company because of their proven ability to minimize construction waste, dust and disruption to neighbors, as well as the flexibility…