Wednesday, October 7, 2009
ecoMOD4 is On the Move
The award winning modular, sustainable design and affordable housing research project, ecoMOD, will be installing its fourth building this Thursday on Elliott Ave. in Charlottesville.
After a busy summer of construction in the old hangar at the University of Virginia-owned Milton Airfield, the four modules of ecoMOD4 will be hauled by tractor-trailer on Thursday morning, lifted by crane onto the prepared foundation, and assembled on its permanent Elliott Avenue site. The completed building will become a home for a family selected by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville.
ecoMOD is a research and design / build / evaluate project at the U.Va. that aims to create a series of ecological, modular and affordable house prototypes. A partnership of the U.Va. School of Architecture and School of Engineering and Applied Science, the goal is to demonstrate the environmental and economic potential of prefabrication, and to challenge the modular and manufactured housing industry in the United States to explore this potential.
ecoMOD Project Director: John Quale, U.Va. architecture professor
ecoMOD Engineering Director: Paxton Marshall, U.Va. electrical and computer engineering professor
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