Housing Of The Future: Green Prefab Homes

The problem of affordable prefab housing can easily be solved with green prefab homes

. They are not only lightweight, they are also cost effective and they are very environmentally friendly.

The problem one has when you wish to have a 'green' house, is that normally this type of house does not come cheap at all. The reason very often is because many people are not prepared to adapt their standards: they want exactly what they are used to, all they want is that it should be good for the environment as well. This creates a conundrum, since the average house was simply not designed with the environment in mind at all.

This is why a prefab house can be the ultimate environmentally friendly, cost effective housing solution. Since prefab houses are, theoretically at least, built so they can be easily modified later on, they are constructed in such a way that they utilize every square inch of space to the fullest.

This type of house is on average therefore smaller than a conventional house, so it uses less resources from the environment. The smaller building site also translates into less ecological damage. This way you can build a house that seems quite large once inside, while it doesn't take up a lot of space.

Prefab houses also make it easy to use green technology, such as solar panels and "grey" water filtration systems - things which are often added to conventional houses as an afterthought once they have been built. Since these features are integrated into the house during the design process, they can be much better utilized than when they were added on later.

Because prefab houses are basically mass-produced, one can make use of recycled material, which is normally rather expensive, in a much more cost-effective way. Mass production brings down the total construction cost of the building in any case, so it's a solution that benefits both the consumer and the environment.

A very creative manner in which many designers use recyclable materials is by utilizing shipping containers as the shells of houses. You will be quite amazed to see how creative these guys can get, and how unique and desirable the homes they build from containers actually are.

A prefab house is the ideal affordable solution for someone who would like to live in a green house, but can't afford the high costs usually associated with this type of house.

by: Lance Thorington

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