Watch the house factory

Ask This Old House home technology expert Ross Trethewey learns about automated home construction. Click Here to check out and subscribe to the official This Old House YouTube channel!

Resources: Ross toured the workshop that is shared by Bensonwood and Unity Homes.

watch Brunswick house Time Lapse - 5 days 

Watch a Unity home in Maine go up in a week. This is how we put it all together. Fabricating the components off-site allows us to assemble the home on-site quickly and precisely.

Somethings of Interest

  • Local, High Performance, Fresh Air Healthy, Solar Homes ARE affordable

  • Homes are tight, quiet, solid, built to last 100’s of years

  • Landicity builds new homes to the highest IRC code feasible, IRC 2018+ (0.7 ACH 50 blower test; 4 inch hole in wall)

    • Most Maine builders do not blower test AND they build to old 2009 IRC standards (~=3 ft. hole in wall)

  • Heating Fuel up 14% 2018/2019

  • CMP Electric up 17% 2018/2019

  • $630/year Energy Cost Increase ~ $4,500 average use/year

  • Landicity Unity Homes sip energy, $10’s of dollars per month

  • Save $100’s of dollars per month; $1,000’s per year

  • Your should REQUIRE your builder to build to 2018+ IRC AND specify the blower test be +/- 1 ach50. If the builder does not, we suggest you find a qualified builder who has and does.