Re: [GBlist] Green Modular Home -Portland

["Steven Shepard" <sbtdesigns@earthlink.net>]

One thing they are is tornado bait.

I don't think God likes these things and I must confess I would not want one
either but I suppose it beats sleeping outside.

My customer in Pleasanton, Texas is able to power his entire mobile home and
garage using the 10kWatt Bergey wind generator we sold him.

That is the only positive thing I can think of concerning mobile homes.

SBT Designs
25840 IH-10 West #1
Boerne, Texas 78006
210-698-7109
FAX: 210-698-7147
www.sbtdesigns.com

Please note we are moving our email address to sbtdesigns@earthlink.net.
Please update our information in your records.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Rogers" <rogers.mike@verizon.net>
To: "Greenbuilding" <greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [GBlist] Green Modular Home -Portland


> I'd like to disagree with several of the posting which have used a rather
> broad brush in painting modular homes as bad, almost to the point of
mocking
> the question.  We should be careful before we automatically trash an
entire
> industry.  It may have been that modular homes of yesteryear wouldn't hold
> up to green building criteria of today.  This does NOT mean that all
modular
> homes built today are garbage.  And, compared to much of the housing stock
> being built, some of them may indeed be "princes".
>
> I don't have the original message, and in all the trashing, I've forgotten
> the exact original question.  BUT, if the intent was to learn more about
> "green" modular homes, there are good stories to tell.
>
> For example:
> *  CARB has worked with Champion, a modular manufacturer, to create a
> modular line that meets Energy Star and Altanta EarthCraft House
standards.
> Perhaps not perfect, but noteworthy nonetheless.  For more info visit:
> http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy01osti/29122.pdf
>
> *  Building Science Corp worked with Randall Homes in Ohio to create a
> modular home that meets Energy Star criteria.  See:
> http://www.buildingscience.com/buildingamerica/overview/Randal.htm
>
> *  Was the original question about Portland. OR?  Although not strictly
> modular (instead, panelized, I believe) check out the City Life
development
> http://oikos.com/esb/50/earthsmart.html
>
> *  A solar modular home assembled on the National Mall in DC got a lot of
> press last year.  http://www.mcneiltech.com/press%20releases/solarhome.htm
>
> *  Other new concepts in modulars can be see at:
> http://www.mfghome.org/industry_award_winners2000.html
>
> *  Some manufacturer's addressing energy-efficiency, and other info:
> http://www.worldwidehomes.net/Pages/energy_saving_home.htm
> http://www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/building_america/boston.shtml
> http://www.pathnet.org/news/981026.html
>
> I also read about one in Energy Design Update last year sometime.  Any
> subscribers recall this article?
>
> If the manufactured housing industry can help bring energy-efficiency and
> broader green building techniques and materials to affordable housing...or
> any housing...more power to 'em.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> --Mike
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ted Shelton <ted655@hotmail.com>
> To: <acourtri@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>; <dlombard@earthlink.net>
> Cc: <greenbuilding@crest.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [GBlist] Green Modular Home -Portland
>
>
> >              This is how the difference was explained to me by a dealer.
> If
> > the frame sits "back" under the side of the home it is a MOBILE. The
steel
> > frame of a modular is on the edge of the walls and is set on a
> conventional
> > style foundation. Both are built in the same manner, using the same
nasty
> > urea, formaldehyde, PVCs, foams, glues and VOL ingredients. To get that
> cost
> > per square, they aren't worrying about our health OR the Earth. Plus,
like
> a
> > auto, they are worth 1/2 the minute they roll off the "lot". They fill a
> > need, but you can't kiss em and turn them into a prince.
> >
> > ted655@hotmail.com
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> This greenbuilding dialogue is sponsored by REPP/CREST, creator of
> Solstice http://www.crest.org, and BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of
> Environmental Building News and GreenSpec http://www.BuildingGreen.com
> ______________________________________________________________________
>


______________________________________________________________________
This greenbuilding dialogue is sponsored by REPP/CREST, creator of
Solstice http://www.crest.org, and BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of
Environmental Building News and GreenSpec http://www.BuildingGreen.com
______________________________________________________________________