{"id":5046,"date":"2024-06-10T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?post_type=purduetoday&#038;p=5046"},"modified":"2024-08-03T14:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T18:41:58","slug":"nexthouse-creating-the-next-generation-of-factory-built-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/Q2\/nexthouse-creating-the-next-generation-of-factory-built-housing","title":{"rendered":"NextHouse: creating the next generation of factory-built housing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.<\/strong> \u2014 The U.S. housing market is in crisis, due to a lack of affordable housing and a shortage of labor and materials to build them. Purdue University has a solution: NextHouse, an initiative to develop the next generation of factory-built housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NextHouse team\u2019s initiative is a moonshot, aiming to harness the expertise of industry and academia to create a revitalized, fully automated and scaled-up factory-built housing industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its strategy is to \u201cproductize\u201d housing, enabling economies of scale through standardizing the manufacturing and assembly of modular elements. \u201cWe want assembling a home to be as simple and customizable as assembling Lego bricks,\u201d said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ME\/People\/ptProfile?resource_id=11824\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James E. Braun<\/a>, the Herrick Professor of Engineering and director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/CHPB\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center for High Performance Buildings<\/a>&nbsp;at Purdue University. \u201cNextHouse will enable a new wave of sustainable, affordable and equitable housing, as well as a new pipeline of labor and manufacturing processes to transform that sector of the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most significant aspects of NextHouse will be the construction of a large prototyping and testing facility on Purdue\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ME\/News\/2024\/nexthouse-creating-the-next-generation-of-factorybuilt-housing\">Read more about the NextHouse initiative here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media are encouraged to share, post and publish this content.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 The U.S. housing market is in crisis, due to a lack of affordable housing and a shortage of labor and materials to build them. Purdue University has a solution: NextHouse, an initiative to develop the next<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}