Kit homes were designed using the same set of materials, each of which fits into a single shipping container for easy transport to disaster sites.
To pull their way out of the recession, builders, designers, and inventors are pushing the creative envelope with new designs, construction solutions, and management systems.
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A new marketing and sales strategy focuses on reducing buyers’ anxieties.
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Surprisingly beautiful and “intrinsically green,” modular houses are easy and fast to construct.
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New owner, H.I.G. Capital, plans aggressive growth for the modular-home manufacturer.
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Connor Homes signs licensing deal with art collector Henry DuPont's former Delaware estate.
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Although not immune to the downturn, some factory-built firms survived by turning to new products and ideas.
Contemporary post-and-beam designs now available in the U.S.
GO House will use a direct-to-consumer market strategy designed to connect buyers with builders.
A combination of the green building groundswell and the new economy may bring OVE and advanced framing into common practice.