The June 2, 2009 issue of USA Today(page 5D) has an article, “Prefab homes now sprout green designs.” This article features Michelle Kaufmann, a San Francisco Bay area architect who first designed her own manufactured green home and then went into business building them for others. The article gives other examples and states that building homes in a factory is “inherently greener” than building them on site because, e.g., there is less waste, greater efficiency, and the materials are not exposed to the elements.
Additionally, Nationwide Custom Homes of Martinsville, VA, claims to have the first completely green community in the Tampa Bay region – Glencairn Cottages. This site also has a virtual tour of the project.
Posted by Howard Allen Cohen, Esq., Atkinson, Diner, Stone, Mankuta and Ploucha, P.A.
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