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Prefabricated Modular home building technology meeting today's energy saving
home needs with high performance design and features.
When building a new home today there are many choices available
for the customer. One choice we have favored for many years has been "modular
construction". Among the prefab options, Modular construction is at the top of the scale for a
factory built home. The custom manufactured home business is a number of
different factory built structure disciplines. Searching for "prefab house",
"manufactured homes", "pre-manufactured houses", or "system built homes" will
yield a number of different results from "mobile homes", "prefabricated homes",
"factory homes", to "new construction homes". Better still
is to search for " Energy Star " system built products.
Saving energy on heating and cooling your home not only helps the environment by
building "Green "but also
makes your home more valuable, comfortable and less expensive to run.
The list will be long and exhausting. Better yet is to do a
search for "luxury modular homes", "custom modular home floor plans" or "custom
modular homes builder". The results will be much closer to a well built dream
home that meets your expectations. Your "modular home" search should provide you
with the modular home builders, and manufactures that specialize in this level
of house product. The big difference in manufactured home and modular is the
cost savings, value and level of completeness.
"Modular Homes" can be very affordable or very elaborate
depending on your taste, "home design" and needs. The "modular home" product is
always built in a factory controlled setting which ensures the same level of
quality and value that you expect in other factory built products like cars or
computers.
Even the most talented builder finds our changing seasons to
be a challenge when trying to bring a site built project to a close. In an ideal
world all builders would like to only use dry materials to build your new home.
Unfortunately once those materials get delivered to site and the construction
process begins so does the rain and the snow. A systems built modular home
eliminates the waste in new home construction, provides a much stronger home,
and most important meets or exceeds the energy savings that we all want in
today's expensive energy markets.
The better custom builders now use modular product to deliver
a high quality, energy efficient home to their customers. This saves time and
ensures that there are no hidden problems that come up after the fact. In
today's luxury new home markets some of the onsite finishes are very labor
intensive. The modular product helps the builder stay on schedule and control
costs by having your new home 85% to 95% completed in the factory and then
finished up on site.
What is a modular home?
Just like your car or computer that is built in a factory a
modular home is also built in a factory. Cars and computers are built in a
factory setting because the quality can be controlled, the working environment
is clean and the costs are controlled. Imagine buying a computer from someone
that built it in your driveway. It may work but will it be your best value.
Probably not.
The size of your home determines the number of modules that
are needed to create your design. The benefits of this type of construction are obvious. There is certainly a cost
savings but the benefits just start there. Quality control, tight joints, and
energy savings construction all make modular construction the choice of smart
builders and home buyers. A cape cod style home may be two modules where
one of our Greenwich custom luxury modular mansions may be sixteen modules or more.
The house design for homes, multifamily and luxury condo units can be as
flexible as needed to create your dream home.
Is modular construction new?
We entered the modular home building business a quarter of a
century ago. In that twenty five years we have seen the industry continue to
grow and become more and more innovative in meeting and exceeding customer and
builder demands and expectations. Believe it or not the industry was already
twenty years old when we were introduced to it. So with almost fifty years of modular
home history we are very comfortable with the change.
Luxury Multifamily Construction.
www.modularcommercialbuilding.com
Given the shortage of multifamily homes throughout the state
those needs are being filled with modular construction. This product can be a
simple duplex and continue right up to major condo projects. In multifamily
builds the quality of modular construction is certainly valuable. Face it if you
are a builder doing twenty condos you want to get them done and then move onto
the next project without being dragged back to fix problems that could not be
avoided. On multifamily projects builders like the timing of the modular
project. Sites are not left open for months on end, materials do not disappear
off site, and the interest costs are a lot less as the build out is so much
faster. Modular also helps builders react to market conditions a lot faster. So
more profit, less risk, predetermined time line and the ability to build more
units all make modular a wise choice for multifamily homes.
Modular additions.
Many people have outgrown their homes. They love the
neighborhood, they have a terrific school system and they are close to work. As
families grow so does the home. Many people have taken a ranch style home and
added a second story to double the space and end with a colonial home. Some
people have added an in-law apartment next to their existing home as well. The
benefit to do doing these modular is mainly time. Costs are about the same as stick
built but time is easily cut in half. If you are looking to expand your home
modular could be the right answer for you.
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Connecticut Modular Energy Star
Carol Sormrude
Cell 860-303-6442
Office 860-572-9414 Ext 312
Office Address:
Prudential Connecticut Realty
62 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic, CT 06355
Learn More
About the Modular Advantage from BusinessWeek
Before going "green" check out the high performance home
features in:
Fine Home Building Magazine-Green Building
Modular Home Building Lots
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