These energy-efficient prefab homes withstand the toughest storms
Deltec has built over 5,000 resilient homes in areas hit by some of history?s strongest storms Welcome to Home of the Future, a four-part video series co-produced by Curbed and The Verge. Each month, we'll take you inside one innovative home and explore how the technology of today informs the way people will live in the future. To follow along, stay tuned for new video episodes on our Facebook page. This month?s location" A round net-zero prefab home engineered to survive the strongest storms.
This past summer?s intense hurricanes?namely Category 4 storm Harvey and Category 5 storms Irma and Maria?struck the Caribbean and U.S. Gulf Coast one after another within a month and a half, offering a frightening glimpse at the threat of extreme weather. For affected folks lucky enough to evacuate, devastation often follows when returning home to find entire properties destroyed. As we anticipate a future of more monster storms, building homes to withstand extreme weather events is crucial?and possible. Deltec, a North Carolina-based prefab home builder, has been around for over 50 years. In that time, it?s built over 5,000 homes, many of them in areas hit by the biggest storms in recent memory, including hurricanes Katrina, Charley, Sandy, and the trio of 2017 storms mentioned above. The survival rate of Deltec homes to date" An impressive 100 percent?even as neighboring stick-built houses, such as one in Rockport, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey shown below, were ...
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