To help meet the needs of Ireland’s affordable housing, one of the country’s biggest homebuilders has spent the last two years converting a former non-housing manufacturing facility into a state-of-the-art offsite prefab housing factory.
NUA Manufacturing, based in Rathnapish, Ireland, was recently officially opened by the homebuilders.
The new timber frame and steel frame manufacturing facility will create 200 new jobs in Co Carlow.
Glenveagh Properties said the new facility will increase its overall delivery capability and accelerate the supply of new homes.
Nua Manufacturing bought the former Braun factory in Carlow town two years ago and have invested €50 million into the site to turn it into a production facility to make timber frames and light gauge steel frames.
Manufacturing is due to start in the next two weeks and will involve the manufacture of a pre-made home in as little as 90 minutes – or 45 minutes on average when combined with the company’s other operations in Arklow and Dundalk.
Nua is owned by Glenveagh Properties, one of the biggest home-builders in the country, and the pre-made homes will be sent to the construction firm’s sites.
Gary Fleisher is the Editor in Chief of Modular Home Source and Offsite Builder magazine. Email at [email protected]
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