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ALL AMERICAN HOMES, LLC. FACT SHEET
Systems-Built Housing: Naturally Green

A Smaller Carbon Footprint: With systems-built housing raw materials for two to three homes at a time are shipped by the truckload to one central manufacturing location. These raw materials such as lumber, drywall, insulation, carpet padding, windows, plumbing, showers and tubs are transported by the truckload from regional suppliers to the manufacturing facility. Other materials such as floor coverings, cabinets, doors and appliances are delivered by efficient less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments on a weekly basis from local distributors. The logistical efficiencies of building a systems-built home translate to significant transportation and fuel savings and an overall lower carbon footprint when compared to multiple deliveries of materials it takes to build one conventional site-built home.

Recycling is Built Into the Process: All American Homes’ modern manufacturing processes assure the majority of waste is recycled instead of hauled to local landfills or burned on the building site. Drywall scrap is collected and trucked to local farmers to use in preparing soil for planting. Sawdust is gathered and used as local livestock bedding. Vinyl siding scraps and copper wire cuttings are placed in bins for recycling. Cardboard boxes are banded and compacted for recycling. Even end cuts from lumber used in the manufacturing process are binned and provided to All American Homes’ employees for fireplace starter and home heating stoves. These eco-friendly efficiencies are “built-in” to the process of producing an All American Home.

Neighborhood Friendly: A typical All American Home is complete and ready for occupation in about six weeks as compared to six months to one year for a site-built home. This is just one reason systems-built housing is less disruptive to neighborhoods. The modules of an All American Home are pre-framed, wired, plumbed and must only be “Set” in place with a crane and finished on the site. This results in less noise pollution with fewer contractors, less delivery truck and labor traffic, and far less disruption to the neighborhood over a shorter period of time.

Save Some Green: All American Homes are completely finished and ready for occupancy approximately three to five months earlier than site-built homes. This results in significant savings from shorter construction or bridge loans. Faster occupancy translates to less rent or mortgage payments as well. Depending on the All American Home you select, cost per square foot are more affordable when compared to custom site-built homes.

Waste Not: According to the Modular Building Institute (MBI) the process of manufacturing a modular home in a controlled environment generates 40 percent less waste than building a site-built home. Additionally systems-built homes are built inside a climate controlled production facility and are never exposed to rain, snow, theft or vandalism. This eliminates weather damage, delays, wasted materials and loss inherent with site-built homes. All American Homes are engineered with a more efficient use of resources and raw materials. Additionally, scrap is also reduced as lumber and other materials are delivered just in time, and precut for manufacturing—thus reducing the need to dispose or burn waste on the building site.

Superior Strength and Stability: All American Homes utilize two-by-six-inch outside wall construction and are reinforced with oriented strand board (OSB) to withstand the stress of being trucked long distances and then “Set” onto a foundation by a crane.

Modular homes are recognized for their ability to withstand the winds of hurricanes better than conventional site-built homes. After the devastation of parts of Florida from Hurricane Andrew in 1992, design studies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on construction methods stated, "Overall, relatively minimal structural damage was noted in modular housing developments. The module-to-module combination of units appears to have provided an inherently rigid system that performed much better than conventional residential framing.”