Each ecoMOD team has the
opportunity to build the prototype they design. The goal
is to not only provide our affordable housing partners
– Piedmont Housing Alliance and Habitat for Humanity
– with actual homes, but to expand on that opportunity
to test prefabrication as a workable solution for the
lack of well-designed affordable housing in the U.S.
The prototypes are fabricated at a decommissioned airfield
hangar owned by the University of Virginia, and shipped
either as modules or panels to their final destination.
Based upon extensive research into the prefabricated housing
industry and advice from modular homebuilders, the fabrication
processes are structured to mimic what a company would
expect if the home designs are taken into production. |
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