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Zane Selvans

Are there any North American companies offering factory-built standardized multi-family designs? Can you buy an off-the-shelf all-electric, low-energy fourplex and have it assembled on a lot in one of the states legalizing across the board?

@ZaneSelvans I haven’t heard of any standardized, modular, multi family passive house companies, and there’s a high probability I’d have heard of it through my work. Mighty Buildings is probably the closest thing I’ve heard of.
I think there are a handful of modular passive MF structures that have been built in DC, Mass, NYC, and maybe the Bay Area. I know there is interest in this sort of thing for manufactured homes all across the NE. VEIC has been working with NYSERDA on that problem.

@Ed_Carley @ZaneSelvans

Might be worth looking at this:

openbuildinginstitute.org/

It's a spin-off of the Open Source Ecology group.

opensourceecology.org/extreme-

While they have two designs finalised, it's still WIP for the other designs, so parameters could be introduced as one of their next parameters to work on. :D.

Open Building InstituteOpen Building InstituteOBI is an open source initiative to make eco-housing accessible to everyone.