Several modular home factories have big plans for expanding their operations within the US but one group from Uruguay is about to make a big splash in the US modular housing industry.
Vantem, a modular construction manufacturer in Uruguay, known for building high-quality, affordable and energy-efficient homes, plans to expand its operations in the U.S. market. The company plans to build 15 factories in the U.S. over the next seven years, each capable of producing a million square feet of homes each year.
Vantem manufactures factory-built, finished, modular units using proprietary panels that are used to simplify the construction of high-quality, affordable and energy-efficient apartment buildings and single-family homes. Vantem’s system has been deployed in over three million square feet of living space internationally, including Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and the Caribbean.
Vantem establishes its factories as joint ventures with developers that seek to reduce costs, construction time, and the carbon footprint of their developments, including building affordable Net-Zero energy structures. The company seeks to install factories across the United States. The strength and resiliency of Vantem’s system is well-suited for a wide range of regions and climates, including extreme hot and cold, wet tropical, dry desert, high hurricane and seismic zones. Made from refractory materials, the system is also fire resistant.
“Vantem’s approach allows the production of high-efficiency and net-zero homes at extremely competitive costs and low embodied carbon,” said Carmichael Roberts of Breakthrough Energy Ventures. “With their proven track record in South America and the Caribbean, we’re confident that the Vantem team can scale their modular approach to ensure homes everywhere can be energy efficient.”
Vantem deploys a unique proprietary technology that lowers costs and construction time, while increasing thermal efficiency, enabling large-scale construction of affordable factory-built, finished, modular units that have been used to add more than three million square feet of living space in six countries.
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Gary Fleisher is the Editor in Chief of Modular Home Source and Offsite Builder. Email at [email protected]
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