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Palm Harbor Launches Video Series to Showcase Factory Construction

Palm Harbor Homes announced today the release of their manufactured Factory Home Tour online video series which displays the integral procedures involved in creating high quality factory-built modular homes and manufactured homes. The 17 part on-site video series features an introduction of the advantages of factory-built homes and the structural processes involved in factory-built home manufacturing from floor and wall assembly to personalize… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on April 20, 2009 at 2:08pm — No Comments

Connecticut Valley Homes Partners with Haven

Connecticut Valley Homes (East Lyme, CT) recently partnered with Haven Custom Homes to formalize its position as Haven's Certified Builder serving most of Connecticut and Rhode Island, plus Block Island and Fishers Island. Haven's Certified Builder program provides partner builders, like Connecticut Valley Homes, direct access to Haven's portfolio of award winning architects' home designs known as "The Haven Collection" as well as pricing, design and priority scheduling. The partnership under t… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on April 16, 2009 at 2:57pm — No Comments

R-Anell Earns Award from NMHC for Universally Designed Home

R-Anell Homes (Cherryville, NC) has won the 2009 award for a modular production home design over 2,200 square feet from the National Modular Housing Council. The home, part of R-Anell’s Forever Living collection, utilizes universal design components to allow homeowners to remain in their homes throughout their life span and to accommodate present and future needs that may arise through existing features and flexible options easily added later. The history of… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on April 15, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Chad Harvey New Director of MBSA

Chad C. Harvey is the new executive director of the Modular Building Systems Association (Harrisburg, PA). Steven R. Snyder, the former executive director, who helped grow the organization beyond its former Mid-Atlantic narrow focus to a nationwide legislative watchdog on behalf of the modular industry, has gone into private practice as an attorney. "Many of you have had the opportunity to speak or work with Chad over the past several years, a… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on April 10, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

All American Earns Colorado Project

All American Homes of Colorado, LLC, a subsidiary of Coachmen Industries, Inc. (Pink Sheets: COHM) announced today that it has been awarded a project by the Boulder County, Colorado, Housing Authority directed by Scott Simkus, BCHA Development Manager. The pilot project, to build two affordable, cost effective homes using a responsible level of renewable energy, is expected to achieve wide recognition as a model for municipal public housing departments around the country. It is the goal of Boul… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on April 10, 2009 at 12:39pm — No Comments

Job Opening: West Coast Modular Home Producer Needs Plant Manager

Fast-growing start-up modular home manufacturer has an opening for a plant manager. Company is building multifamily, green modular developments on the West Coast. Offering a rare opportunity for an experienced multi family, modular plant manager to create an efficient, scalable, green, clean, high-tech modular factory. Seeking an individual with an excellent record in plant financial management and ERP/MRP systems. Ideal candidate is highly innovative and in pursuit of improving current models w… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on April 3, 2009 at 12:47pm — No Comments

Excel Weighs Re-Starting Maine Modular Home Factory

The president and chief operating officer of Excel Homes said Thursday he will continue to monitor the economy in Maine and decide as early as June whether the former Oxford Homes plant will be reopened, according to a report by the local newspaper, The Sun Journal. "It's a tough market although we continue to fair well. But we haven't generated enough business to reopen the plant today,… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on April 3, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Third Phase of Barracks at Fort Bliss to Be Built by with Modulars By Trendsetter

Fleetwood Enterprises (OTC Bulletin Board: FLTWE) announced today that its Trendsetter Homes division has signed a contract to supply modular military housing to the U.S. Army for the third phase of construction at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Terms of the multi-million dollar contract were not disclosed. To complete Task Order III of the Fort Bliss project, Trendsetter Homes, Fleetwood's modular division, wi… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 31, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Epoch Nominated for Innovation Award

In recognition of its unique custom approach to green building, Epoch Homes has been nominated for a New England Innovation Award by the Small Business Association of New England (SBANE). Innovation is at the heart of economic prosperity and SBANE continues to recognize those companies that have transformed their innovative ideas into a product or service that delivers proven value to customers. “There are a lot of different views right now on what green… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 27, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Mod Maker Haven Teams Up With NC Developer to Offer 'Healthy Built' Homes

Haven Custom Homes, a leader in the construction of custom modular homes, in conjunction with Sanctuary Communities have completed their first NC HealthyBuilt Home, The Quarters. The Quarters home designed by Allison Ramsey Architects, a Haven Partner Architect, features a broad front porch with bungalow charm. The two-story home is spacious with 2,113 square feet and features three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 24, 2009 at 1:11pm — No Comments

"R-Home" Combines Energy Efficient SIP Performance With Modular Building System

Structural insulated panel manufacturer Foard Panel (West Chesterfield, NH) and modular home builder KBS Building Systems (South Paris, ME) have teamed up to introduce the “R-Home” to the home buying public. The R-Home is essentially a quickly installed pre-manufactured home with state-of-the-art home efficiency technology. It’s up quick, economically priced and perfect for first time buyers or retirees getting ready to downsize. This three-bedroom, two-bathroom colonial has 1,024 square feet… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 20, 2009 at 12:46pm — 1 Comment

Modular Construction & Green Building: Seminar March 19 in Mifflinburg, PA

As part of the 'Building Green Seminar Series' launched by the Energy Resource Center, Rick Terry, with the Factory Built Housing Center, Penn College, and Dave Reed, president of Penn Lyon Homes, are presenting a seminar on how modular construction meets green building guidelines. The seminar will be held March 19, at the Carriage Corner Restaurant in Mifflinburg, PA. Modular construction is “inherently green”, eliminating up to 75% of on-site waste while reducing the time and transportation c… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 13, 2009 at 4:24pm — No Comments

Downsizing the American Dream: Successful NY Mod Builder Expects 50% of His Business to Be HUD-Code

John Makovic, a successful modular builder in Monticello, NY and one of the 2008 winners of the 30 Under 40 Awards recognizing talented individuals in the Building Systems industry, has seen the changes in the home building industry first-hand. "I have contracts for well over 100 units this year that got put on hold," John Makovic, owner of Makovic Homes, told the local newspaper, the Times Herald-Record. "The Hasidic projects are the only ones going forward. They have some of their own… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 10, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Fleetwood Files Chapt. 11: Axes Travel Trailers, Seeks Buyers for Motor Home, Housing Divisions

Fleetwood Enterprises, a leading producer of recreational vehicles, manufactured and modular housing, today filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions for itself and certain operating subsidiaries in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California in Riverside. The filings indicate the company is closing its travel trailer operations. Fleetwood's motor home and manufactured housing businesses will continue to operate while the company seeks buye… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 10, 2009 at 10:38am — No Comments

Architect Russell Versaci Launches 'Pennywise' Line of Modular Homes

Russell Versaci, the architect who has been singing the praises of the modular home building industry for its ability to create green homes for less cost, is now launching a new line of smaller homes. Versaci thinks this new housing economy is finally forcing a halt to the spread of bloated McMansions. He's leading a movement toward smaller, well-built homes that honor our country's architectural roots - houses that are not only sensible and affordable, he said, but "that have a sense of belongi… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 9, 2009 at 11:57am — No Comments

$4.5 Million Agreement Between Keiser & CTA Construction for Senior Facility

Keiser Homes (Oxford, ME) and CTA Construction (Boston, MA) have announced that they have signed a $4.5 million contract to build a ninety-five unit, $20 million senior living center in Somerville, Massachusetts. The center, to be named Capen Court, will consist of one hundred and fifty-seven building modules and total more than 85,000 sq.ft. The project is being funded by the Somerville Housing Authority (SHA)… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 9, 2009 at 11:37am — No Comments

Georgia Legislators Considering Law Prohibiting Discrimination Against Modular Building Systems

Legislation introduced on behalf of the Modular Building Systems Association (MBSA) by Georgia State Representative Jay Roberts was approved by the House Committee on Agriculture and Consumer Affairs and awaits consideration by the full House of Representatives. House Bill 516 will prohibit any municipality in the State of Georgia from discriminating against modular housing in residential subdivisions. Under the bill, residential industrialized housing is defines as any dwelling designed and co… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 4, 2009 at 6:31pm — No Comments

New Video on Modular Construction From the BSC

A new, free video by the Building Systems Councils (BSC) outlining the benefits of modular home construction — how builders can save time and money in today’s turbulent market by cutting overhead and outsourcing their construction costs — is available online through the BSC, reports Nations Buildi… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 4, 2009 at 12:18pm — No Comments

New Center at Texas Naval Air Station To Be Built With Modular Technology

The Warrior Group (Desoto, TX) has been hired as prime contractor by the U. S. Navy to provide design-build services for a building addition to an existing Navy Facility Child Development Center (CDC) on the Naval Air Station Fort Worth, Joint Reserve Base (JRB) at Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. Construction will begin mid-March 2009 on the approximately 11,800 sq. ft. building that will surround and enhance the exterior of the existing CDC structure. The building will meet the federal governme… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 3, 2009 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Buffett's Berkshire Cuts Jobs as Recession Deepens

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which recorded its worst financial results ever in 2008, will cut manufacturing jobs and close facilities as the recession deepens, Bloomberg reports. Berkshire reduced the number of employees at Clayton Homes, which builds HUD-code homes, by 16 percent last year to 11,998. Shaw Industries, the largest U.S. carpet-maker, cut 6.2 percent of i… Continue

Added by Charles Bevier on March 3, 2009 at 12:09pm — No Comments