Green Track Homes? Sooner Than You Think
It appears the desire to churn houses off an assembly line isn’t just reserved for home builders carving up hillsides.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Zeta Communities, a prefab real estate developer, is working on an experimental home in Oakland to display its unique building technology. Zeta, or Zero Energy Technology and Architecture, offers architects and builders a chance to build extremely energy efficient homes in the factory, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. In Zeta’s words:
“The building produces an energy load that’s only 60% of what a standard similarly sized home would use. It’s cheaper and twice as fast to build the multi-family house in a factory than to build it on-site. A factory-built Zeta home also generates half the waste of an on-site home.”
Two thoughts come to mind:
1) Take a look around Oakland and Emeryville and tell me how well prefab-esque condos are selling, and
2) If they can really deliver energy efficiency for less money,
we say bring it on – put Pulte Home and its eyesores out of
its misery!