New Flatpack from Unity Homes May Be The Greenest Prefab On the Market

treehugger.com 09 Oct '12, 2pm

New Flatpack from Unity Homes May Be The Greenest Prefab On the Market

Tedd Benson has been building houses for almost 40 years, and has been questioning the way they are built since he started. After years of specializing in high-end timberframe designs, he has launched a new company, Unity Homes , to bring his innovations to the flatpack prefab world. Houses are like people; different parts wear out at different rates. In people, it gets expensive changing parts. With houses, until about hundred years ago, this meant fixing the roof and painting; then we added plumbing and wiring and insulation and other technologies that we buried behind the walls, so that like people, it got expensive and destructive to cut them open to upgrade systems. The structure of a home, built of decent materials, might last a couple of hundred years; the heating system or wiring might last a couple of decades, yet builders stuck the wires and ducts into the walls ...

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Unity Homes: Flatpack pre-fabricated homes that let owners access and update building systems. Makes sense. [link]
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@Mr_Travis » 09 Oct '12, 5pm
1st part=ugh. RT @lloydalter Most houses built today won't outlast mortgage; Unity Homes prefab built for generations. [link]
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TY to @lloydalter & @TreeHugger for coverage of our new Unity Homes brand. [link]
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