Dr Daeneke, co-lead researcher Dr Ken Chiang and colleagues also recently signed a $2.6million agreement with Australian environmental technology company ABR, which is looking at solutions to decarbonise cement and steel production.
Modular homes are very sturdy in there construction when they are placed properly on a foundation.
The researchers from Melbourne’s RMIT University believe their technology is a potential game-changer for steel and concrete manufacturing, which are fuelling climate change and together produce about 14 per cent of global CO2 emissions.
Housing Ministry figures say that of homeless people helped into temporary accommodation like this by councils last summer, six out of ten were single adults, while a further 26 per cent were lone-parent families and 8 per cent were couples with children
Housing Ministry figures say that of homeless people helped by councils last summer, six out of ten were single adults, while a further 26 per cent were lone-parent families and 8 per cent were couples with children.
‘There’s no bathtub. Originally I was washing him (the nine-month-old) in the kitchen sink but now I wash him on the floor, getting a cup and washing him that way, because he’s too big to fit in the sink now.’
The Local Government Association, the umbrella body for councils, said: ‘The severe lack of social rented homes available… means councils have no choice but to place households into temporary accommodation, including – in emergencies – bed and breakfasts.’
It is thought there are more than 210,000 homeless children in England, of whom 124,000 are on the official homeless registers and living in temporary housing, and a further 90,000 said to be in ‘sofa-surfing’ families living with relatives or friends.
Another confusing part is the term that is used to describe mobile homes. The term “Manufactured Housing” has been adapted by the mobile home industry to alleviate the stigma of mobile homes. Of course uninformed people bundle modular homes in this mix since modular homes are constructed in a manufacturing facility and are transported, but that is where the similarity if any ends.
There are two main types of modular homes. These are classified as mobile homes and manufactured homes.
‘The council put me in here,’ she said. ‘It’s better than Calais but no-one wishes to live in a shipping container homes plans, especially when you have kids. When I got here and saw all of this, the container, I was crying.’
‘While we would rather offer people the opportunity to live in genuinely affordable permanent homes, the housing crisis means we have no choice but to use temporary accommodation to house the sheer volume of homeless households that present to us.’
‘Children have told us of the disruptive and at times frightening impact this can have on their lives. It is a scandal that a country as prosperous as ours is leaving tens of thousands of families in temporary accommodation for long periods of time.’
There is no stigma for modular homes that I know of,but a lot of people are miss informed about modular construction. Most people are confusing mobile homes with modular homes and there is a stigma about mobile homes and mobile home parks.