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Successful home or commercial building is a result of the
builder's skill to bring the job in on time, on budget and of course have the
quality levels expected in the marketplace. The best home builders are not just
talented craftsmen but talented business managers as well. Material price changes,
weather delays, task scheduling and a hundred other items are all in line to
take your home project off course. All of these items come up on every job from
a thirty unit townhouse project, to a shoreline cottage, a luxury Greenwich
mansion, or a nice four bedroom colonial. The successful builder is skilled in
not only building but is also highly skilled in project management to address
all of the job related issue that come up. Sound construction management uses
the best of factory manufactured products to maintain value and quality of the
finished home. That is why builders prefer modular components to build the great
homes they create.
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". 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.
Modular Design
Custom home builders from California to New Hampshire have had
a strong bond to the benefits of factory made products. Cabinets, windows and
doors are an example of high end prefab products because of their exceptional
value, affordable cost and consistent quality. This is why custom builders now use modular
home product to deliver
a high quality, energy efficient homes to their customers. Modular home
manufactures are specialists in home construction, just like Kraftmaid is a
"specialist" in fine cabinet making and Anderson is a "specialist" in custom
window assembly. Good construction management successfully brings the skills of
all of these specialists together to build the fantastic homes that they do year
after year.
Custom modular home construction takes the variables out of
home building for the custom and production home builders. Your home price is
depended on the builder being able to price your home with the finishes and
features you want. This price becomes locked or fixed when a builder knows
exactly what his cost will be and what the end finish level will be for
his client. 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.
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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 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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