Sustainability
Affordable housing just got a little more accessible in Grand Prairie — or really anywhere a plot of land is available. HiFAB hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday morning at its modular home factory, featuring turnkey homes designed by award-winning Texas architecture firm Lake | Flato. HiFAB builds single-family modular homes and aims to produce high-design…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like efficiency and affordability are trending in the Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market. As tiny homes and accessory dwelling units are gaining in popularity, environmentally-friendly modular homes also are entering the scene and making a not-so-tiny splash. Architecture firm Lake | Flato teamed up with developer Oaxaca Interests to…
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Part of the age we live in seems to be rediscovering that old ways of doing things were actually better. For example, the recent realization that the makeup of towns to encourage vibrancy through density and the support of multi-income levels versus single-strata communities is better – a millennia-old concept only deviated from with the…
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Dallas earned a gold star for green building! A new report by Abodo.com ranks the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex tops for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified residential building. In fact, Texas leads the nation with the most LEED-certified residential construction projects by a substantial margin. With 6,945 LEED-certified residential projects underway in Texas, more than…
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Have you ever tried to imagine what life would be like in a tiny house? Well, lifestyle repackaging expert, tiny home blogger, and Dallas native BA Norrgard offered a few BuzzFeed staffers the chance to live in her tiny house for a few hours. The results? Lots of laughs and a little introspection. Jump for…
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