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New Century has a Component Wall Manufacturing Plant for single family detached homes, single family attached homes, and multi-family homes. We also build Component Wall Sections for many commercial projects, and we can build one, two, three, or more stories, using almost any floor plan, exterior finish, interior finish, roof pitch, roof materials, lighting, floor covering, foundation system, doors, windows, fireplaces, or whatever is needed, or desired.
New Century does not, and will not, build mobile homes or modular homes.
What New Century produces are component wall home kits. Wall segments that are built indoors, in enclosed production facilities. Wall segments that are built with top grade materials, under rigid quality control standards. Wall segments that are designed to be assembled at the building site.
Exterior Walls
All exterior walls will be made using 2" x 6" studs. The provides for an R-19 insulation factor. Even though a home may be built for use in a hot climate, the extra insulation will aid the air conditioner in keeping the home cool.
New Century will produce exterior walls that have the doors and windows installed when they leave the factory. The exterior sheathing will also be applied in the factory. The inside of the walls will be left open so the workmen can install the plumbing, heating and electrical.
New Century places a 2" x 12" board at the top, on the inside, of each exterior wall section. This board stiffens and braces tile walls for transport. But, it also makes a great selling point because it provides a solid place for hanging curtain and drapery rods.
The Interior Walls
All interior walls will be built with 2" x 4" studs, except the plumbing wall, which may be built with 2" x 6" studs.
The interior walls will have the sheetrock installed on one side. The other side is left open to allow the electricians and plumbers to complete their work.
The Subfloor
The subfloor sections, to cover basements, where necessary, and for second, or more stories, will be built with "open truss" joist on 16" centers. The subflooring is then glued and screwed to the joist. This creates an extremely solid floor, without squeaks.
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The Open Truss is a unique concept. Open web floor trusses have been meeting floor framing challenges for years. They allow long spans and make it easy to install electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems. Their strength comes from the structural power of the triangle--a building shape as old as civilization. Along with the additional strength comes extended shipping times, alleviation of field problems from bad dimensions, and reduced costs.
The open web joist gives the benefits of engineered floor trusses but eliminates their drawbacks. Strength and long spans remain. But, because of the open joist's unique assembly process of finger joinery and waterproof glue, the high costs are gone. Also gone are long turnaround times and field fit problems.
Open truss engineering produces a floor system 1½ to 2 times stronger than required by US building codes.
A 2" x 4" nailing flange ensures that decking is properly fastened to avoid squeaks. Open web design allows the joist to effectively absorb and disperse floor vibrations squeaks resulting from expansion and contraction due to moisture conditions are virtually eliminated.
Open web trusses eliminate the need to cut or drill through joists to install electrical, plumbing, and HVAC services. Through-web access allows mechanical systems to be "hidden" inside the floor system. Eliminates the need for dropped basement ceilings or the expense of installing a deeper foundation. Slashes HVAC costs when duct work is pre-installed in the factory.
Open web trusses use approximately 35% less wood fiber than solid-sawn timber, yet are stronger. Most raw materials come from small diameter, fast growth trees from renewable forests. No steel is used in the assembly of the joist, so the expenditure of energy and non-renewable resources is avoided.
Open web trusses utilize precision finger joinery and waterproof structural glue which avoids the high cost of steel truss plates.
Open web trusses may be individually tested in the factory to make sure they will carry more than twice the required floor load. Open web joist floor systems are guaranteed against failure during the lifetime of the home.
Other Products
As the plant gets into operation, New Century will expand its operations to provide a variety of products that are essential to the construction of a home. We plan on providing our own roof trusses, cabinets, bath surrounds, shower stalls, and even jetted baths and hot tubs, plus many other things that can be made with fiberglass, aluminum, or other materials, in a cost effective operation.
New Century will provide complete plans, video, and instruction booklet. The specifications can be modified to suit the buyer's needs, and to provide that the home will abide with municipal by-laws, will be treated against termites, built to resist earthquakes, etc.
New Century will provide qualified technicians on all major transactions in order to further guarantee the project can be completed with local labor.
The advantages of the New Century system of construction are almost to numerous to list Some of them are as follows:
New Century can provide, or help with, the following:
Market analysis on your selected development site.
We will help you determine the size and price of home that will produce the greatest potential profit in a reasonable time. The analysis will examine the comparative home prices, lot sizes, standard and optional features being offered, as well as traffic desire lines and convenience factors, such as accessibility to schools, markets, and churches.
If the project is commercial, New Century's staff will assist in the analysis of the viability of the commercial aspects of your site, including both foot and vehicle traffic patterns, and assistance in leasing.
New Century has a land planner on staff who can help in all phases of the planning. Our land planner has planned subdivisions, laid out commercial sites, and has not only designed golf courses, but is a certified golf instructor. Our land planner has served as the County Planning Director for Wasatch County, Utah, so he is familiar with the rules, regulations, anal procedures necessary to obtain approval for a development plan.
In short, New Century stands poised and ready to provide complete real estate development services to its customers, and to their customers.
In addition to the Land Planner, New Century currently has a licensed Real Estate Broker for the State of Utah and a licensed General Contractor for the State of Utah all on staff. The balance of the staff has extensive experience in all phases of real estate development, construction, marketing, and sales.
We Offer Two Options
Framing only:
If you select this option, New Century will provide the materials to frame the home, including all sheathing, doors, windows, and insulation in the exterior walls.
Complete ''turnkey'' buildings:
If you select this option, New Century will complete all phases of the construction, as per the plans.
Customer Support and Service
New Century guarantees ongoing customer support for you and your customer. We are committed to the concept that service and quality come first.
Our staff is competent in the necessary computer skills to initiate and maintain all PERT Scheduling, Gant Charts, and personnel work loading, through sophisticated computer programs. If additional programs are needed, the staff is capable of writing them "in house."
New Century has the management skills, experience, expertise, ability, and knowledge to effectively operate its business activities.
Interior and exterior walls are prefabricated in a manner that makes them a complete wall segment. The walls may include but are not limited to:
The walls, when completed, are placed on a specially built trailer, which can accommodate up to a 40 foot lengths for transport to the building site.
At the site, the wall segments are placed on a previously prepared slab, or basement foundation, as called for by the plans, using a crane.
As soon as the subfloor if any, and the walls are in place, then the roof trusses and roof sheathing are installed.
This entire operation usually takes 8 to 12 hours, depending on the size and style of the home being built. The home is then completed using normal construction methods.
From ground breaking to Certificate of Occupancy should, under normal conditions, take from 3 to 4 weeks. This reduction of the usual construction time creates a savings in construction cost.
It should be noted that all lumber materials used in the home are grade 1. It is cheaper to use grade 1 than to sort through lumber to find a suitable piece. Every cut, and every hole, in every piece of lumber that enters the factory flow has been predetermined to minimize the waste. The piece of wood that is thrown away costs just as much as the piece that is used.
The New Century home is of better quality materials and craftsmanship than the traditional stick-built home found in the usual subdivision. We go to great lengths to control the quality of our product at every step of tile manufacturing process.
High quality construction is far more important than saving money in building the homes. Cheap, poor quality homes, will not sell, while high quality, reasonably priced, affordable homes will readily sell.
The New Century Homes Factory must use only top-grade materials in order to maintain the anticipated quality control in a precision factory environment. Rigid enforcement of building codes as well as the establishment of strict manufacturing standards is far more practical in the factory where constant quality control inspection is possible.
The following example from Mr. Watkins book, bears out the concept of quality construction. "Not long ago a modular house was delivered to its site too late in the day to be anchored down. A tornado came across the country and lifted the house in the air, spinning it around three times before dropping it to the ground. Peering from their storm cellar, the people next door saw it happen. The next day the assembly crew found the house intact except for a few dents and broken windows. The house was hauled back in place -- it had landed halfway off the foundation -- and was anchored down. The dents were repaired, glass replaced and the house was as good as new. It has been occupied ever since."
The importance of high quality design cannot be over emphasized.
It is a fact that many of the homes built in the U.S. are not professionally designed by architects, nor do they have proper engineering.
Because of the increased stress in moving and setting a factory-built home Architects and Engineers must design the factory-built home with additional strength.
Having Architects and Engineers perform the stress calculations and other engineering considerations will insure quality homes. Manufactured homes, in almost all cases, are designed by professional architects and engineers.
L. Cluff Major, founder and owner of L. Cluff Major Associates, one of the pre-eminent residential architectural firms in the country, is a leader in the area of factory built home design. His designs serve as the basic portfolio for many of the countries largest manufactured home companies. According to Mr. Major, "Quality of design means higher long-term value in comfort, convenience, day to day operating efficiencies, and ultimate resale value of the home.
The Factory-Built home is no "pig in a poke." The buyer knows what he is getting and there are no surprises after he moves in.
It's a house that has been built many times before in the factory and the construction and set-up problems have already been solved. The homes come from a highly controlled "what you see is what you get" environment, and although this may constrain some of the buyer's whims of fancy, in the long-run they will have a better quality home to enjoy.
THE BUYER KNOWS ALL COSTS GOING IN! Unlike the field-built home where mistakes, delays and unexpected problems are the rule, rather than the exception, the Factory-Built Home is a known quantity. The precise cost of the house as it comes out of the factory has been accounted for each time the home has been built. All costs are controlled down to the pennies.
The required time to complete a Factory-Built Home is sharply reduced over conventional construction. Stick-built homes traditionally require 90 to 180 days, or more, to complete, and are subject to the whims of both mother nature and sub-contractors. Component Wall Homes require from 30 to 45 days to go from the placement of an order by the buyer to occupancy of the completed home. This is a significant savings in costs.
Most manufacturers have a catalog of standard house plans and elevations the company builds on a regular basis, and the buyer is expected to select from these available plans.
Many manufacturers, however, offer CUSTOM BUILT HOMES, from the buyers plans. Such customizing costs extra, but the net result is still a reduction in cost.
Financing problems are minimized by a Factory-Built Home because lenders are familiar with the house, and have financed it before.
Because of the quickness with which the Factory-Built home can be delivered to the buyer it may not be necessary to obtain a construction loan.
Most manufactured homes conform to FHA CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS for houses. Such qualification makes financing easier and less expensive. They also qualify for Veterans Administration (VA) and Farmers Home Loans.
The New Century Homes factory house comes with a full ten year warranty on materials and labor, plus certificates of approval by local, state, regional and national building codes. The fixtures and appliances used in the New Century home are all top quality and the manufacturers warranty for each unit comes with the home. The warranty from the manufacturer of an item used by New Century shall prevail over the New Century warranty.
THEFT, VANDALISM AND OTHER PROBLEMS
Since the home is built in a factory where all of the materials and supplies are under lock and key at all times, potential losses due to Theft and Vandalism are minimized. And, because the component parts can be set in place quickly the on-site finish time for the house does not allow the exposure to vandalism and theft experienced in field-built operations.
Anyone who has spent time around a conventional construction site has seen literally truckloads of materials hauled off as trash.
This is a hidden cost in the construction of every stick-built home. This factor contributes nothing to the value of the product, except cost. The piece of lumber that is discarded cost the same as the piece that was used. In a factory environment it is possible to take a piece of lumber left over from a home to be shipped to one locale and use it in a home to be sent hundreds of miles in the other direction.
In a component wall manufactured home plant in California, owned by one of the New Century officers, the total waste from cutting out the walls of two 1500 square foot homes was hauled away as sawdust in a half-full wheelbarrow. Through the planned use of materials in the manufacturing operation, WASTE IS CONTROLLED AND ELIMINATED.
These are some of the MAJOR BENEFITS you get with a Factory Built Home. They add up to more value received for dollars spent than any other home.
Drawbacks to the manufactured home lie principally in the minds of the public. They are based upon carry over of the stigma from post-war times when manufactured home builders rushed to get anything out the door that people could call a roof over their heads. Many stick-built homes, at that time, were no better quality, but that was blamed on the individual builder rather than the industry.
In Summary, although great strides have been made in the Factory-Built Home Industry, there is still room for improvement. Many advances of technology have yet to be applied in this industry. In some cases, even basic manufacturing concepts have not been adopted. Significant cost reductions are possible through the use of these concepts.
Though the industry has become a Goliath in the market place, it is still in its infancy in operational application.
New Century Homes will build the most modern manufacturing plant possible. We will use the latest technological advances to automate the production process. With the expertise of the officers of New Century Homes and the R & D Facilities and production capabilities of some of New Century's suppliers we have the ability to design and construct the automated devices necessary to build such a facility.
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