Report: Global Prefab Market Bright
According to a new report, present day mobile homes are increasingly being considered permanent dwellings for the middle-income individuals, in many parts of the world, and the sector contributes...
View ArticleNew Zealand Wood Plant Shutters
From New Zealand and Hawke’s Bay Today, MHProNews.com learns that Pacific Wood Products (PWP) will close a plant in Napier and comes with the loss of 41 jobs. “The business has struggled to maintain...
View ArticleDown Under MOD
ArchitectureandDesign reports from Inverloch, Victoria, on Australia’s rocky southeast coast, Archiblox has created a modern, sustainable modular home that maximizes sea views to the south while...
View ArticleAussie Modular for Residential or Industrial Housing
Daily Mercury reports from Australia, housing solutions company Tektum has developed a modular house with two to four bedrooms, 80% complete when it leaves the factory in one and one half standard...
View ArticleOpposition to Australian MH Development Grows
As follow-up to a story we published yesterday, July 25, concerning the development of 251 manufactured homes in Halekulani, near the southeast coast of Australia, express-advocate-wyong reports...
View ArticleHigh-end Modular Hotels Down Under?
WaToday reports from Australia modular construction techniques have been used in mining camps and other remote areas to house workers, where materials and labor are expensive to import for onsite...
View ArticleModular High Rises Down Under
The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia tells MHProNews a building system called Klik can manufacture everything from single houses to high rise apartment buildings. Using either square, linear, L-shape...
View ArticleBlack Diamond Completes Shopping in Australia
MarketWatch reports that Calgary, Alberta Canada-based Black Diamond Group Limited has completed the acquisition of 90 percent of the modular rental business and 20 percent of the modular building...
View ArticleBlack Diamond Setting its Financials for Release
Modular builder and energy services provider Black Diamond Group Limited of Calgary, Alberta, Canada announces it will release its year-end and fourth quarter financials after the market closes Tue.,...
View ArticleModular Builder Down Under Sold
As themercury tells MHProNews from Australia, modular homebuilder EMAC Systembuilt Group announces it has acquired Mornington Park Homes Pty Ltd, an affiliate of the now defunct Park Homes group....
View ArticleNew Modular Builder Arises from Down Under
A new modular transportable cabin has been developed in a range of five designs in Australia. Measuring 29 feet X 12.5 feet, the steel-framed Affordable Portable (AP for short) costs $61,000 and is...
View ArticleModular Residential Housing Ramping up in Australia
For years in Australia, mining and construction companies used dongas, transportable single-room aluminum buildings for workers, which have now evolved to modular housing, but few modular structures...
View ArticleModular Housing Proposed for the Homeless
A report from Australia revealing nearly 70 percent of homeless services around the country is not meeting the demand has prompted community groups to call for politicians to respond to the need in...
View ArticleModular Units Considered for Australia’s Public Housing
The government of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia is seeking proposals to increase the state’s stock of public housing inventory. A report by the state’s Auditor General revealed while NSW has the...
View ArticleModular Builder Declares Dividend
Canada’s Black Diamond Group Limited has declared a dividend of $0.07 cents a common share payable Sept. 16, 2013 to shareholders of record as of Aug. 30, 2013. Through its subsidiaries the company...
View ArticleAussies Banking on Factory-Built
Down Under, again: From a two-room self-contained Quickshack for a home office, teenage space, or a grandparent home to single and multistory modular housing for students, hospitals and hotels,...
View ArticleModular Workforce Development Planned for Northern Canada
The Britco Division of WesternOne, Inc. has entered a $100 million agreement to supply a major energy company with modular workforce accommodations in Northern Alberta, Canada. Comprised of over 1,500...
View ArticleModular Workforce Camp Rising in Canada
Britco, one of the largest modular construction businesses in the industry, has announced plans to build a workforce housing project in northern Alberta, Canada for Devon Energy Corp. British Columbia...
View ArticleAustralian Land Lease Community on the Block
A 100 home site manufactured housing community has been listed for sale in New South Wales, on the south east coast of Australia. Residents of Acacia Ponds Village near Mirambula pay $85 a week for...
View ArticleAustralian Manufactured Housing Community Planned
A former sports field is the site of a planned $1.29 million, 100-home manufactured housing community in the Mayfield area of Newcastle, just north of Sydney, Australia on the southeast coast....
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