Affordable Modulars Come to Sudbury, Massachusetts
From Massachusetts and Metro West Daily News, MHProNews.com learns that an affordable housing project long underway will soon bear the fruit in the form of new modular homes. Undertaken by the Sudbury...
View ArticleCanadian Minister’s Office Flooded with Emails on Attawapiskat
There don’t appear to be any shortage of Internet connections in Attawapiskat, or at least not for those in Canada concerned about the conditions there. From the Toronto Sun, MHProNews.com learns that...
View ArticlePalomar Modular Buildings Announces Multi-use Dining Facility for Oilfield...
Palomar Modular Buildings, a Texas based direct manufacturer of custom commercial modular buildings, has announced the development of a multi-use dining facility for remote oilfield housing camps. The...
View ArticlePrefabricated Modular Receives LEED Platinum
Greenfab was recently awarded LEED Platinum certification by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) for achievement in green homebuilding and design. Greenfab’s prefabricated, modular home is...
View ArticleLiving Green Asks Just How Green are Today’s Modulars?
From the web site Living Green comes a story that looks at the history of modular homes and just how green they are. The modular, as the article points out, has been the “net big thing” in home...
View ArticleModular Pros Gathering in Orlando
Modular says the Modular Building Institute’s (MBI) World of Modular convention and trade show in Orlando, Florida at Disney World March 24-27 will bring together hundreds of professionals from the...
View ArticleMassachusetts Tightening Modular Inspection Requirements
From FoxNews Boston, MHProNews.com learns that Massachusetts is cracking down on modular home builders and inspectors. That’s in light of previous stories on the network that the network says exposed...
View ArticleBlack Diamond to Webcast Annual Meeting
Calgary-based Black Diamond Group Limited announced recently the company will webcast its 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The meeting will be held at 3:00 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in the...
View ArticleEasily Assembled, Low-Cost Shelters Aimed at Disaster Relief
From DelmarvaNow.com and Virginia, MHProNews.com learns that homes conceived there are finding welcome occupants in Haiti. Known as the Shelter 2.0 project three 10-by-14 foot wooden shelters were...
View ArticleImproving Manufactured Housing’s Image to Increase Sales
With image being a key component to selling more manufactured homes to cash and credit worthy buyers, that may explain the growing daily commentary in favor of the start of the...
View ArticleModular Homes becoming a new Jersey Shores thing
Updating the recent story on Scranton PA based Westrum Development is installing a two story Cape Cod modular home on the post hurricane Sandy Jersey shore the firm built in just 28 days. Cost for...
View ArticleModular Classrooms Fill the Bill in Canada
When classes resume this week in Canada, the winnipegfreepress reports 9,000 school children will be taught in 361 modular classrooms stretching across 32 school divisions. Each unit costs about...
View ArticleSchool District may add Modular Classrooms
While the number of jobs in Stamford, Connecticut has declined the past three years, enrollment in the schools, especially in the elementary and middle schools, has increased and is expected to...
View ArticleATCO Receives Workforce Housing Contract
ATCO Structures & Logistics has received a contract to provide modular housing facilities and site services for a 1,200 person workforce housing facility for the Shell Carmon Creek Project near the...
View ArticleRedevelopment Includes Modular Apartments in London
The Woolrich area of South London, once thought of as a dangerous region, is experiencing an “embryonic reinvention” of housing under development, including 60 one and two-bedroom modular apartments...
View ArticleAlgeco, Modular Workforce Provider, Acquires Chard
Algeco Scotsman announces the acquisition of Chard Camp Catering Service Ltd., a provider of remote modular workforce housing and catering services, by its subsidiary, Target Logistics. With...
View ArticleBuilder Hopes Demand Rises for Modular
A developer of mixed-use multifamily and office buildings in Seattle, Washington says micro- housing is a good solution for housing in urban areas but it should go through the same design review as...
View ArticleMontana County Enforces Workforce Housing Regulations
Following up the story MHProNews posted Dec. 11, 2013 regarding workforce housing and recreational vehicle (RV) regulations in Richland County, Montana, County Planner Marcy Hamburg says any parcel of...
View ArticleMicro Modular Apartments: Sanity versus Salary?
While New York City and other crowded urban areas attracting young professionals are turning to micro modular apartments of 200 to 400 square feet–as MHProNews posted here May 27, 2013–mental health...
View ArticleUpdate of Manufactured Housing Community Delayed
Following a story we first posted Oct. 21, 2013 regarding the proposed redevelopment of Vineland Vista Mobile Home Park in St. Helena, California owned by Vintner Hall Wines, the Napa Valley Planning...
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