With the housing market taking a down-turn, more and more home owners are turning to modular house building. And because these modular homes are built in a factory, there’s less waste of wood and other materials, making for a much “greener” home in the end.
According to this article, modular homes are one of the fastest growing sectors of the residential community:
Homebuilders are learning that there is a very ‘green’ side to modular homes. Factory-built homes are more “green” than most site-built homes. Steven Winter, of Steven Winter Associates, is chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Homes program which, rates homes for green certification on a number of criteria. Says Winter, “Because they’re built in a factory and much of the lumber is pre-cut, there is less scrap and waste; the cut-off pieces are often ground up and recycled; the central location of a factory means no wasted transportation to get workers to an isolated job site, so there’s a savings in fuel and energy. So, in a whole array of material savings attributes, time saving attributes, energy savings attributes, systems built homes go a long way toward achieving green objectives.”
The National Association of Home Builders credits modular homes as being one of the fastest-growing segments of the residential construction industry, growing by 48% from 1992 – 2002. In 2004, a reported 42,700 modular homes were built in the United States, and in the northeast, modulars account for 1 out of every 10 homes built.
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