Taking two building techniques the United States isn’t very familiar with and using them together may sound like a bit of a gamble, but RPA and Ecocor have teamed up to do just that with their ...

The Goldenrod design is 1,051 square feet, and preliminary pricing is around $330,000. The original design comes with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, but Scott wanted extra space for a workshop. Scott ...

When we wrote about high tech wood prefabs in Sweden, readers asked “why can’t we have this in America?” In fact, you now can. Not only that, you can have it built to Passivhaus, or Passive House ...

SEARSMONT — What’s coming off the assembly line at Ecocor looks a bit like a really fat, firm box spring, 18 inches thick, swathed in high performance fabrics, framed with wood, so solid that even the ...

When Elizabeth Scott ordered her new energy-efficient home, a factory in Searsmont, Maine, went to work. Advertisement Article continues below this ad The house arrived in pieces on four trucks in ...

The Ecocor-RPA partnership launched today with the unveiling of eleven prefabricated passive house model home designs that range from a 323-square-foot one-bedroom cabin to a 2,685-square-foot three ...

It seems like everywhere you look these days you see homes covered with solar panels. If Tesla’s recent announcement about solar roof tiles is any indicator, this trend is here to stay. While moving ...

A hundred years ago, it was nothing for a homebuyer to purchase a house from the same source that supplied her corsets and motor buggy. From 1908 through the 1940s, Sears, Roebuck and Company sold ...

After writing about the Deep Performance Dwelling, which I described as “Passive House and Prefab,” Scott Hedges of Bygghouse-- “a building technology company focused on commercializing Scandinavian ...