Tag: prefabricated homes
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ShelterKraft Werks Designs and Builds Sustainable Custom Shipping Container Homes
The Seattle-based home building company, ShelterKraft Werks, designs affordable homes that are configured around recycled shipping containers to provide solutions for global housing challenges with turn-key, low footprint structures that can be installed within any conceivable environment. The brainchild of Kai Schwarz, ShelterKraft Werks is a blend of what he has learned about architecture, engineering,…
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D-Process Creates Lego-Like Pieces for Homes to be Built Right On Site
Facit Homes has patented the D-Process, a high-tech machine that turns a 3D computer model of a home into functional pieces that can be snapped together to build an entire house directly on-site. With the help of D-Process, the company designs detailed pieces of each home on a computer and cuts them on a CNC…
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Net-Zero Solar-Powered Start.Home Could Transform Green Home Building
Since ground broke on the Start.Home, the students who are designing and building the Stanford University entry in the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon have been learning their way around the construction site from five Carpenters Union instructors. CU is a Platinum-level project sponsor, joining other companies like DIRECTV, Intel, General Electric, Applied…
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Try Before You Buy: Tiny Cabins by Hobbitat at Ecotourism-Friendly Blue Moon Rising
Recently featured on Tiny House Talk, tiny home builder, Hobbitat, was started just over a year ago by Maryland custom home builder and historic restoration specialist, Bill Thomas. Since 1995, Bill and his wife, Sue, had been designing and building homes as Blue Sky Ventures and, in 2011, they began constructing little buildings with reclaimed…
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The Sarah House Project Will Provide Shipping Container Shelter for Low-Income Families
Jeffrey White, a real estate agent who resides near Salt Lake City, Utah, is spearheading the Sarah House Project, a nonprofit, community-based organization that aims “to provide fast, green minded, safe, affordable homes for the underserved.” Built from converted, recycled shipping containers and named for a San Francisco artist who succumbed to cancer, the homes…