So Chad, are you thinking Build it Green constructs the parts for the 100k house, in philly, then ships the pieces(5-10 miles?) to the site for assembly? What about the SIP’s? Where are they manufactured?

Also, it’s more expensive, poorer quality and more wasteful than our concepts. At least I think. More research is needed…

http://www.rvtr.com/rvtrWeb/rvtr_Latitude.pdf

This could be the next stage of development for the 100k house brand.

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Lots of space to be saved, but they severely limit what you can carry upstairs (like a bed)

Could we look at the 100k house as a collection of pre constructed pieces (a kit of mass customizable parts)? The sips, the stair construction (more on this later), the cabinets and appliances, the few walls (prebuilt of course, just drop in place! ), the exterior windows and exterior doors, metal panels, the fixtures, closet constructions…anything else?

More on the stairs…Are they still being thought of as the plywood box stairs that were referenced earlier? Could this be preassemblied (and maybe prefinished?) and set in place when the SIPS are set (same crane)? Or it could be a kit of parts assembled on site (10 treads, 10 risers, 2 stringer/walls and a partirdge in a pear tree?)

That other house however, is another story. Financial “savings” it may have, however by the look of the brochure I doubt it is at all aesthetically pleasing and I would question even the basic quality at that price.

The general problem with factory built housing is that it has always looked or actually been of cheap quality with very little visual appeal (think standard double wide). When architects or other designers have tried to make prefab housing it always cost an arm and 3 legs. And this is perhaps where the 100k house is most successful in that it proposes to take a reasonable budget and build a modern house and make it as sustainable as possible in the process. But I digress, this is no longer on topic of the reconstruct theme.