I think I have blogged a lot about green prefabricated homes,
but yet here is another blog entry on the same topic. The reason? I
really liked this comment from a person who has bought a prefabricated green home
recently: "I kept looking for something that was middle-class
green."
The prefab market, once derided as the lowly world of
double-wides trailers, is positioning itself for major growth when
the housing industry rebounds.
"We're light years away from where we were five years
ago," says Tedd Benson of New Hampshire-based Bensonwood
Homes. His company is refining computer software that can do a 3-D
home model, then cut, shape and detail each part in the
factory.
That's not all. Other advances include a folding technology
that allows Blu Homes to truck across the country modules as narrow
as 8 feet that unfold — origami-like — to
create homes more than twice that width when placed on a
foundation.
