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Kit / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Lifestyle, location and commuting

Moving to the countryside? Here's how that can work...

...kit houses. Yes, this probably comes as a surprise to many as you ask yourself, are kit houses considered a green home? That depends on how well they are made and the materials used. You can build junk houses in a manufacturing plant just as easily as all the junk houses being built in urban subdivisions, and you can ...

Architecture and plan design

Prefab Homes for Sale - Beautiful & Sustainable - Available Now

...kitchen area and the high north-facing wall, these generous storage areas allow the whole families' posessions to be neatly stored away. This high performance prefab green home has a triple-glazed window along 36' of wall © Studio MMA As an option, this prefabricated home can be customized to the preferences of t...

Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Le Refuge - An architect-designed modern green prefab 2 bed kit home

...kit home Along with a trend towards compact living, another quickly growing trend in home construction is the rise in popularity of modern prefab kit houses. Le Refuge is a compact but perfectly-formed prefab home that brings together the best of both of those hot new building trends. A true concentration of talent, t...

Tiny house

Beautiful shipping container homes - tiny houses in warm climates

...kitchen, a bedroom with floor-to-ceiling windows, a spacious luxurious ensuite attached, and that awesome open deck joining both rooms for outdoor relaxing and BBQ dinners. This shipping container house in a warm climate has wide opening windows for ventilation The Ensuite in master for this shipping container home ...

Tiny house

Le Refuge - An architect-designed modern green prefab tiny house kit home

...kit home Along with a trend towards compact living, another quickly growing trend in home construction is the rise in popularity of modern prefab kit houses. Le Refuge is a compact but perfectly formed prefab home that brings together the best of both of those hot new building trends. A true concentration of talent, ...

Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Design and construction of frost-protected shallow foundations with radiant heat

...kit home, the s1600, by partnering with a specialist company that manufactures frost-protected shallow foundation forms (slab-on-grade) that are heated with air rather than liquid. This has caused much controversy and discussion ever since, with us often hearing how "air doesn't transfer heat the same as water" and how...