Clayton Homes may be able to rule the cheap, energy-efficient single-family home market with the i-house, but ZETA (Zero Energy Technology and Architecture) Communities is angling to dominate the affordable, energy-efficient multi-family home market. The San Francisco-based building design start-up is opening its first prefabricated "net-zero" demonstration house in Oakland, California, in the next two weeks. The house will be designated as net-zero due to its ability to produce as much energy as it consumes.
According to ZETA, the demonstration home features a passive solar design, energy-efficient windows, super-strong insulation, and a control system that manages on-site energy usage. As a result, the building produces an energy load that's only 60% of what a standard similarly-sized home would use. ZETA's home saves on construction costs, too--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.
Instead of selling directly to home buyers, ZETA will market itself to architects and developers by taking existing building plans and figuring out how to build them in modular pieces. ZETA-designed buildings will, for example, always use a single "utility core" for heating and cooling pipes as well as an in-home controller to manage energy systems. Despite these common features, ZETA claims that it can construct buildings in a variety of styles, ranging from European and American traditional to modern.
Even though its demonstration home has yet to be completed, ZETA is in high demand. The company has a number of projects in its pipeline, including a 30-unit student apartment.
[ZETA Communities via CNET]
Related:
Clayton Homes' i-house Combines Energy Efficiency and Modular Affordability
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Recent Comments | 15 Total
July 12, 2009 at 6:48am by Lisaa Ray
According to its website, Clayton owns and operates 68 manufactured housing communities and 12 subdivisions[1]. However, in July 2007 Clayton contracted to sell 65 manufactured housing communities in 11 states.[5] They produce homes under the brand names of Clayton Homes, Crest Homes, Gideon Homes, Giles Industries, Golden West Homes, Karsten Company, Marlette Homes, Oakwood Homes, Schult Homes and Southern Energy Homes.
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July 28, 2009 at 8:02am by aliya david
Many so-called “energy experts” have incorrectly stated: “Passive solar systems do NOT work in hot humid climates like Florida.” This statement is partially correct IF you constrain your simplistic thinking to conventional single-shell houses, but this ignorance is quite false IF you understand the powerful science documented by Zero Energy DesignTM.
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August 12, 2009 at 8:12am by homme rock
Zeta Communities plans to produce modular, factory-built, multi-family homes that utilize the latest in sustainable technologies.
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August 16, 2009 at 7:10am by homme rock
In the next two weeks, the San Francisco-based company expects to complete its first demonstration building, a town house in Oakland, Calif. Using a variety of design choices, such as a passive solar design and very efficient windows, the energy load on the town houses will be 60 percent of what a comparable-size traditional building would require. Solar panels meet all its electrical needs.
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August 18, 2009 at 3:35am by homme rock
It is a tough time to be in the prefab biz; your costs are pretty much fixed, while the conventional stickbuilding trades will work for food these days. It is tougher still to sell prefab wholesale to developers; they are not used to giving away any of the profits and can almost always do it cheaper by building it themselves.
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August 24, 2009 at 3:10am by homme rock
The BrightBuilt Barn , located in Rockwood, Maine, is one of the super energy-efficient prefab designs of the year. A highly covetable structure, this barn/studio is not only a net-zero house — meaning it strives to leave no carbon footprint — it is also seeking LEED Platinum
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August 27, 2009 at 11:45am by Anuj Joshi
OMG!!!
What a house,,,
Its like a house created with all creativity mind all corners.
I wish i have this house .
but anywya its a nice art with lots of brain work
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August 31, 2009 at 1:32pm by dental elegance
And that's the strategic choice that Zeta Communities made in entering the modular, factory-built green homes business.
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September 7, 2009 at 12:15am by Ravi Singh
Even I would like to own such a home.. But I guess this kinda house will not be available in my country..
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September 22, 2009 at 2:59am by green boal
The most cost-effective energy reduction in a building usually occurs during the design process.To achieve efficient energy use, zero energy design departs significantly from conventional construction practice. Successful zero energy building designers typically combine time tested passive solar, or natural conditioning, principles that work with the on site assets. Sunlight and solar heat, prevailing breezes, and the cool of the earth below a building, can provide daylighting and stable indoor temperatures with minimum mechanical means. Z.E.B.'s are normally optimized to use passive solar heat gain and shading, combined with thermal mass to stabilize diurnal temperature variations throughout the day, and in most climates are superinsulated.All the technologies needed to create zero energy buildings are available off-the-shelf today.
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September 22, 2009 at 7:15am by sammiha khan
Sunlight and solar heat, prevailing breezes, and the cool of the earth below a building, can provide daylighting and stable indoor temperatures with minimum mechanical means. Z.E.B.'s are normally optimized to use passive solar heat gain and shading, combined with thermal mass to stabilize diurnal temperature variations throughout the day, and in most climates are superinsulated.
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October 14, 2009 at 12:21pm by Muscle Mass
Its all about the greenhouse these days. ZETA should be selling directly to home buyers because architects are going to slug the average person.
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November 4, 2009 at 12:38pm by sammiha khan
Clayton Homes may be able to rule the cheap, energy-efficient single-family home market with the i-house.
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November 8, 2009 at 12:52pm by green boal
Zero energy buildings are autonomous from the energy grid supply - energy is produced on-site. This design principle is gaining considerable interest as renewable energy is a means to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings use 40% of the total energy in the US and European Union.
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