Reasons Why Modular Home General Contractors Use Precast Concrete

Its superior strength, durability and overall structural integrity make precast concrete the preferred building material in seemingly countless applications, including the modular home construction process.

Installation of precast concrete structures is familiar and often-practiced in the construction of modular homes in Michigan. Unlike the installation of some other materials, it requires no specialized experience or training. Plastic product installation requires adherence to tedious and rigorous installation specifications. The specifications add time and cost to any project. Supervision, oversight and the recording of contemporaneous job notes are necessary to document compliance with the manufacturer’s specifications. Failure to comply will compromise the structural integrity of the installation, invalidate any manufacturer warranty, and produce liability to all parties except the manufacturer. Installation of precast concrete structures is fast, efficient and straightforward. Yet another way precast concrete saves you time and money.

Precast Concrete is Durable

Precast concrete structures have been seen to stand for over 100 years, and those structures will continue to function long after the designed useful life of the project has passed. Because precast concrete does not bend, warp or deviate from its original shape, it is sure to be compatible with any future plans for project expansion or upgrade.

Precast Concrete Saves Money

Manufactured using local, natural and benign materials, precast concrete’s localized production process ensure greater responsiveness and accountability to the customer from the manufacturer. Keeping you in direct contact with the manufacturer is just another way that choosing precast concrete can save you time and money.

Precast Concrete is Environmentally Friendly

An environmentally friendly product, precast concrete requires less energy to manufacture than plastic products require. Choosing precast concrete over plastics is also choosing to conserve the world’s diminishing petroleum supply and to support the American economy, since imported petroleum is the major component of almost all new plastics. Production of precast concrete products is better for our environment and better for our economy.

America’s modular home is the foundation upon which our productivity and industry are built. Such a valuable institution cannot be entrusted to inherently inferior products and materials. Not all infrastructure products are created equal. Durability, strength, integrity, and versatility are the essential elements of long-term value. Quite simply, plastic products are no match for precast concrete’s proven legacy of strength and quality.

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Precast Concrete and Its Benefits and Disadvantages to Modular Homes in Allen, Michigan

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 18, 2014 in Allen, Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations, Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

Every modular home construction material & system has its own characteristics like the precast concrete. It can lead to a greater or less extend influence the layout, span length, construction depth, stability system, etc. This is also the case for precast concrete, not only in comparison to steel, wood, and masonry structures, but also with respect to cast in-situ concrete. Theoretically, all joints between the precast concrete units could be made in such a way that the completed precast structure has the same monolithic concept as in-situ one.

However, this is a wrong approach. It is very labor intensive and costly. If the full advantages of precast concrete are to be realized, the structure should be conceived according to its specific design philosophy like long spans, appropriate stability concept, simple details, etc. Modular home designers should from the very outset of the project consider the possibilities, restrictions & advantages of precast concrete, its detailing, manufacturer, transport, erection and serviceability stages before completing a design in precast concrete.

Benefits of Precast Concrete

Precast concrete enables faster programmed times. It is not affected by weather or labor shortages. It also improves buildability as early enclosure of dry envelope enables follow-on trades to start sooner. Most modular home builders and contractors know that precast concrete produces a high standard of workmanship in factory conditions – reduces potential for accidents, addresses on-site skill shortage. Above all, precast concrete system has a high quality finish that can be left exposed where concrete’s thermal properties can be exploited in low-energy buildings.

Moreover, architectural precast concrete provides architects with an exciting medium when designing facades for a wide range of buildings, from healthcare facilities to shopping malls, commercial office buildings to sports stadiums.

Disadvantages of Precast Concrete to Modular Construction

Precast concrete system building is less flexible in its design concept than purpose-mode structures. There are home owners who do not prefer precast concrete as most modular home design they wish to incorporate cannot be fulfilled. Precast concrete alters the original concept as it needs overall modification.

Another con to using the precast concrete is its structural connection between the precast concrete units. It can present both design & contractual problems

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Benefits of Applying Precast Concrete to Modular Home Construction

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 17, 2014 in Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations, Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

Precast concrete, a highly efficient, practical method of concrete construction makes beautiful modular homes possible at a cost that rivals even the most utilitarian traditional houses.

The following highlights a few reasons why precast concrete is helpful in modular construction;

Faster Occupancy

Precast concrete can be manufactured and erected by one trade more efficiently and quickly than any other building system. Speedy completion means your building can be occupied and generating revenue sooner. The solid, secure, high-quality look and feel of solid precast concrete construction encourages greater occupancy at higher rents, with better selling and resale values.

Life Comfort with Precast Concrete

Precast concrete offers some of the lowest sound transmission of any building material used for multi-unit housing. When ceilings and floors are made with precast, noise complaints become a thing of the past. Tenants like the sense of security of a building that is solidly built, fire resistant, and virtually decay-proof. They know their families are safe and their possessions are protected.

Life Safety

Nothing is as solid and secure as a precast concrete building. Tenants sense the structure’s quality and permanence as they walk the floors and experience the quiet of the evening. They feel safe during the worst that nature can offer, including hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and fire. Even their neighbors offer little threat because precast protects them with superior fire resistance that meets or exceeds the fire ratings of their building codes.

Precast Concrete and Fire Safety

A major concern when building assisted living/retirement multi-family modular home is minimizing the threat of fire on lives and property. Containment requires fire-resistant building materials with two-hour or higher fire rating. A multi-unit structure built with precast floors and roofs, combined with precast dividing walls, meets these requirements and can contain a fire to within the unit of origin, leaving surrounding areas virtually undamaged.

Precast concrete does not burn, give off lethal fumes or smoke, and does not fuel a fire. Furthermore, it maintains its structural integrity even in the most intense blaze. Precast stays in place when other safety devices fail, keeping fire contained and occupants safe.

Speed of Construction

Precast components can be manufactured and erected more efficiently and quicker than any other building system. The use of precast walls speeds the modular home process. Construction rates of one floor per week and better are often achieved. Architectural insulated wall panels used for the exterior of a building can provide a durable, attractive, energy-efficient envelope. Ancillary recreation, parking, and convention facilities are commonly constructed using precast concrete framing with long span precast roof and floor members

Durability of Precast Concrete

High-strength precast concrete components are cast under controlled conditions in the Lafarge plant. When precast concrete elements are pre- stressed, concrete is cast around highly tensioned pre- tensioning strands that run through the steel forms. After the concrete has cured, the pre- tensioning force is released into the beam placing the concrete in compression.

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Saving Money with Insulated Modular Home in Jackson, Michigan

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 15, 2014 in Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

When you live in a modular home, the process of saving energy is different from that of a traditional house, primarily because of the different types of construction materials used. Depending on the age of your modular home, you could face a number of issues that cause your utilities to be higher; the older a modular home is, the more inefficient it is likely to be. You can make small changes that save money on utilities and reduce your impact on the environment with an insulated modular home.

One of the most appealing characteristics of the modular home of today is that it is built to be highly energy-efficient. Constructing a modular home with 2×6 walls means that there is more room for insulation. Insulation in the ceilings, walls, and floors can significantly reduce your energy bills over time. The more insulation a modular home has, the better able it is to keep the heat inside during the winter and keep the cool air in the home during the summer.

Role of Insulation to Modular Home

Insulation is the most effective method of improving the energy efficiency of a home. In fact, your energy costs can be reduced by around 30-40% with adequate insulation in your modular home. It acts as a blanket, protecting you from the harsh conditions outside and keeping your family comfortable when indoors. An energy efficient modular home is a good choice for consumers looking to reduce their impact on the environment. Modular homes that feature 2×6 walls are among the best home designs for energy efficiency. The structure of these homes allows for more insulation than those constructed with 2×4 walls.

With more insulation, your modular home will be more comfortable all year long. Plus, a well constructed, well insulated modular home will be more valuable to potential buyers when the time comes to sell your home. Insulation not only traps the heat and cool air within your home, it can also prevent environmental noise from disrupting your time while indoors. Additional insulation can be added to any home with relatively little cost. The improvement in your energy costs and total comfort is well worth the small expense.

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Build your Modular Home with Superior Walls® Basement

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 14, 2014 in Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations, Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

Some people are hesitant about including a Superior Walls® basement as part of their modular home. They worry about the space being damp and cold, making it virtually unusable for living space. With Superior Walls®, you can be sure that your basement will be a comfortable space that adds functional living area to your modular home. Whether you use your basement as a playroom for the kids, a home office for mom, or a place to watch the games for dad, you will appreciate the extra space to spread out.

Superior Walls® Means High Quality

Builders know that Superior Walls® offers the highest quality foundation products available. They use the most durable materials to ensure that your basement will stay comfortable and dry, no matter what the weather is like outside. These well-constructed basements are highly energy efficient as well. The strong walls are well insulated to maximize energy conservation and prevent unnecessary energy loss through the basement walls. Saving energy is good for your wallet as well as the environment.

More Savings with Modular Home with Superior Walls®

Superior Walls® is the brand that most modular home contractors go to because of its affordability and cost saving benefits. It gives more savings to the home owner by reducing the energy waste.

The energy-efficient walls help lower energy costs and reduce energy leakage while providing increased living and storage space in a comfortable setting. Modular home builders also benefit from saved job site time and labor when certified Superior Walls installation crews set the walls in place in less than one day.

Great Resale Value of Modular Home

More living space means more value for your modular home when it is time to sell. Potential buyers will appreciate the extra space to do with as they please. Well-constructed basements are usually considered a positive selling point for most buyers.

When designing the home of your dreams, you can choose as many features and upgrades as you desire and your budget can manage. One of the most popular upgrades that our customers choose is a basement by Superior Walls®. This foundation system offers unmatched benefits in sustainability and efficiency while adding living space and comfort to your modular home.

Choose a foundation system that will not only add to the livable square footage of your home, but also help you reduce your energy costs as well. Add a Superior Walls basement to your new home!

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How Insulated Precast Foundation Help a Modular Home to Achieve No Heating Bill

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 13, 2014 in Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

Modular home is inherently more energy efficient than traditional home. It is sustainable and leaves more cost savings.

Whatever the size of your new modular home, you can build in features which will make your property energy efficient, and incorporate insulation which will cut your heating bill drastically, or wipe it out altogether.

Benefits of Insulation to Modular Home

The use of insulated precast foundation to modular home construction brings many benefits and some drawbacks compared to a conventional framed building.

No one method of energy efficiency in a modular home can reduce your heating bill to zero, but good quality insulation can go a long way to reducing costs. Most manufacturers who draw up modular home floor plans incorporate high standards of insulation on the walls, ceilings and have the best standard of windows and doors on the market. Good insulation can keep your house warm in winter, and cool in summer.

Properly insulating your modular home does not just mean the right amount of insulating material; it also means energy-efficient foundation walls.

The cost of insulated precast foundation for a modular home is higher than the materials for a comparable framed building in the United States; however, this may not be true elsewhere. Well-built modular home using insulated panels will have a tighter building envelope and the walls will have higher insulating properties, which leads to fewer drafts and a decrease in operating costs. Also, due to the standardized and all-in-one nature of insulated panels, construction time can be less than for a frame home, as well as requiring fewer tradesmen.

The panels can be used as floor, wall, and roof, with the use of the panels as floors being of particular benefit when used above an un-insulated space below. As a result, the total life-cycle cost of a insulated precast constructed building will, in general, be lower than for a conventional framed one—by as much as 40%. Whether the total construction cost (materials and labor) is lower than for conventional framing appears to depend on the circumstances, including local labor conditions and the degree to which the building design is optimized for one or the other technology.

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Features and Benefits of an Insulated Modular Home

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 12, 2014 in Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

Many seek for a modular home with features that answers their needs and wants. They look meticulously on the interior and exterior features. Materials and other properties like the insulation are among the things they inspect.

Legendary Homes Inc. has come up with a great solution by introducing the insulated modular home. The company is building modular homes with high insulation rate that promise a sustainable and efficient abode.

Green Features of a Modular Home

Insulated modular home is built with products that are safe and nontoxic. They incorporate green features that minimize the build-up of indoor air pollutants, humidity, and allergens. These green characteristics are important to your family’s health, since airborne toxic pollutants are five times higher inside houses than outdoors. Green design also resists the growth of mold and mildew. Not surprisingly, green building helps family members with asthma or allergies. It also improves everyone’s comfort, since it is less drafty.

An insulated modular home is built with sustainable practices, ones that rely on recycled resources. Green modular home builders efficiently employ resources, conserving materials and cutting waste where possible. They select materials and equipment that are friendly to the environment. When green builders apply these practices to their heating and cooling systems, they craft modular homes that use less energy, which benefits our planet. You benefit as well, since you save money, as much as 50% on utility costs. These green practices also increase your modular home’s resale value.

Durability Features Modular Home

Another reason modular home technology produces tighter homes is that the components are joined with stronger fastening systems. Many components are attached with both glue and conventional fasteners. Since the grade of glue is often stronger than the screws, nails, and bolts, this modular technique bonds the materials very tightly together. And since the glue fills many of the cracks and crevices that naturally occur between framing materials, the fastening system further reduces air infiltration.

Efficiency and Sustainability Features

Modular factory production includes a third characteristic: it enables resource efficiency and sustainable practices. Green modular factories promote resource efficiency by selecting products that reduce the demand for water, energy, and materials. For example, green modular homes include water efficient fixtures, such as low flow toilets and water efficient showerheads and faucets. Green modular manufacturers create less waste by using lumber precut to size and by reusing and recycling what they can of their limited waste. For instance, it is common for a modular home factory to recycle cardboard, aluminum, steel, and plastic and to reuse drywall. The limited on-site construction of modular homes conserves energy by reducing the number of trips to and from a job site.

Modular factories promote sustainable practices in several ways, most notably with assembly line procedures that reduce build time, enhance quality, and lower cost. Modular technology even carries sustainability to the building site. With most of the home built at the factory, green modular construction causes less damage to the environment, and imposes less noise and disruption on the neighborhood.

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Benefits of Insulated Precast Foundation to Modular Home Construction

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 11, 2014 in Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations with No Comments Yet

Most modular home contractors would prefer insulated precast foundation because they have some attributes that make modular home construction achieve great quality and efficiency.

The following are the benefits of insulated precast foundation to modular construction;

Affordability

We build all our modular homes with insulated precast foundation in a controlled factory environment. This results in a much shorter construction time, more efficient use of resources and less wastage, so we can bring you superior quality housing at a much lower cost.

Quality

Our controlled production environment allows us to build with precision and accuracy, guaranteeing you a stronger, better-built insulated precast foundation. Throughout construction the building materials for your modular home will be shielded from the weather to prevent mould or warping.

Energy Efficiency of Insulated Precast Foundation

We build our modular homes to the highest environmental standards, to minimize your energy consumption and reduce your power costs. All external walls and ceilings have integrated insulation. Additionally, the windows and glass sliding and bi-fold doors are double glazed using toughened 5mm glass.

Cost Savings of Insulated Precast Foundation

A modular home is an affordable alternative to traditional housing, without the risk of unexpected extra costs or construction delays. Because we build your home in our controlled factory environment we are able to accurately predict our costs and take advantage of economies of scale; savings which we pass directly onto purchasers. Your site costs and the cost of insulated precast foundation also will be lower as your modular home requires minimal footings and site preparation compared to a conventional home.

Environmental Responsibility of Insulated Precast Foundation

Our progressive, refined manufacturing techniques ensure that almost all waste from the manufacturing of each home is recycled or used again. Legendary Homes Inc is an environmentally sensitive company which strives to increase productivity and efficiency, and simultaneously reduce the carbon footprint associated with every home we manufacture.

Standards Compliance of Insulated Precast Foundation

All Legendary Homes Inc. modular homes are fully American Building Code compliant. In fact the insulated precast foundation, frame, windows and doors of our modular homes far exceed the minimum requirements under these standards. For example, the standard minimum glass thickness in residential windows is 3mm, whereas Legendary Homes Inc’s windows and glass doors all come with toughened 5mm-thick double-glazed panels.

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Is Insulated Precast Foundation Right for your Modular Home

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 10, 2014 in Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations with No Comments Yet

While most new modular homes in the U.S. are framed on site using conventional lumber, insulated precast foundation is now utilize to build a new home. Below is an overview of how insulated precast foundation affects modular home construction.

Modular Homes

A modular home uses conventional stick framing and must satisfy the same building codes as a site-built home, and holds its value about as well. Modules are built in a factory and finished on the inside. They’re trucked to the site and set in place with a crane. The local builder knits them together and adds finishing touches, like decks.

Although you’ve probably seen a modular home – usually two halves of a simple box – rolling down the highway, they’re not the whole story. Modular homes come in all quality levels and price points, and some manufacturers combine custom-built modules in different ways to create complex designs, that include insulated precast foundation and other popular architectural features.

In principle, the factory environment offers better control over everything from the framing to the insulation, but in reality the product varies. The quality offered by some modular builders can equal site-built homes and some firms have designed “green” homes. Other modular builders have been known to cut corners – for example, with thin interior walls that offer little privacy from noise. Ask lots of questions, get references, and scrutinize the product specs as carefully as you would with any home. Expect higher quality to carry a higher price tag.

Insulated Precast Foundation

An insulated precast foundation panel is a sandwich of rigid foam insulation between oriented strand board that results in a structural panel. Precast foundation panels come with pre-cut window and door openings as well as conduit for electrical wiring. They’re used for walls and ceilings, and can be combined to create nearly any home design. Specially trained crews assemble them on the jobsite. They’re often used to cover a traditional timber frame, or post-and-beam structure, but they can also be self-supporting.

A modular home with insulated precast foundation panels tends to be well insulated and draft free, so it needs less energy to heat and cool than a typical stick frame. As such, you may need a smaller heating and cooling system.

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Modular Home Building System and Its Benefits to Jackson, Michigan

Posted by Legendary Homes on November 9, 2014 in Jackson, Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

A modular home is built in one or more sections in a factory, then transported and installed on a permanent foundation at the home site. Modular homes are designed and constructed to meet all state or national building and fire codes in your home’s final location.

A modular home brings lots of advantages especially to the first time home buyers in Jackson, Michigan.

Speed of Construction

Modular home construction allows for a quick turnaround between groundbreaking and occupancy. Custom modular homes are often built in a fraction of the time needed for a comparable custom site-built home.

Most work is done in the factory, so weather delays, missing materials, and subcontractor no-shows are all but eliminated, saving time and money.

Design Flexibility

While most manufacturers have a portfolio of modular home floor plans to choose from, computer-assisted design (CAD) allows limitless design and customization possibilities when planning your new modular home.

Quality is Guaranteed in a Modular Home

Building homes in a factory setting allows for more consistent quality due to uniform construction processes, training techniques and inspections.

All modular homes are inspected by an independent, third-party home inspection agency before leaving the factory. Once on site, they are again inspected, this time by a local building inspector. A modular home meets and often exceeds all requirements of locally adopted building and fire codes.

Energy Efficiency is Incorporated in a Modular Home

Modular home is often more tightly built and thus more energy efficient, which can result in lower heating and cooling costs for the home owner.

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Topic: Modular Home

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