Mobile homes have not been built since 1976 because of stricter standards enacted by the US Department of Housing and Development (HUD). Modular shipping container homes nashville are movable, but like site-based homes, have strict codes and standards to meet before being made for sale to a prospective home owner.
Modular homes are built in a factory to meet or exceed the building codes where they will be set and permanently attached to a foundation. Modular homes are then brought to the build site in large pre fabricated pieces and assembled like a 3-D puzzle.
The fact that approximately 80% of the construction is done offsite differentiates them from stick built homes. The fact that they meet local building codes and are not built on a frame that can later be moved from the foundation differentiates them from manufactured homes, which are built to the less stringent HUD code.
Kohler believed the endless debate over nuclear was ‘a distraction from the real work of dealing with climate change and the transition to renewable energy’ including whether there should be a carbon tax.
Kohler traced the nuclear ban back to a deal made between the Coalition Howard government and the Greens in 1998, where it was a tradeoff to allow a nuclear research reactor being built at Lucas Heights near Sydney.
‘The main reason for Labor to remove the ban, you would think, is that advocating nuclear generation is the Coalition’s only energy policy; without being against the ban, which the Coalition itself imposed, it would have no policy at all and would have to think of something sensible,’ he explained.
‘We have to stick to the facts instead of the emotion on this issue, and we’re going to lose industry, there are going to be smelters, and others are closed down under this government, the jobs will go offshore, and the emissions will still go into the air.