The Expanding Demand for ADU Construction Creates the Perfect Springboard for an American Industry: Exporting Mesocore American homes.

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As California and other states forge forward with incentives and streamlined permitting of ADUs, or Accessory Dwelling Units, to help satisfy housing shortages, a timely opportunity to develop and perfect a world house develops. The desirable attributes are similar: their smaller yet efficient size, structural strength to resist natural disasters, green and sustainable with no utility costs, durability and ease of maintenance, and a short construction window.

In addition, the new administration’s desire to level the playing field for exports and reduce America’s trade deficit makes the timing the perfect storm. The global market for individual (single-family) homes is some $850 billion, and the USA exports zero percent (as opposed to exporting some 6% of the $2 trillion auto market). China is beginning to enter this market, as are the Scandinavian countries, but the logistics of world transport to deliver a complete house have yet to be adequately solved.

Since 2008, Mesocore has operated in a development facility in Florida and has successfully delivered volumetric (as opposed to flat-packed) modular prototypes to Africa and Central America and into the mainland USA. The logistics of delivery is a design that integrates modular factory production into a custom-built Intermodal 20-foot container, which remains as part of the house structure. For final local delivery, its size and weight allow a maneuverable 37-foot straight truck with a knuckle crane to transport to the final site and place the unit on a prepared pier foundation in hours. Mesocore has patented this concept, and no better delivery system is available.

Mesocore is launching its ADU version at the International Builders Show (Las Vegas Feb 25 to 28th) with production beginning later in the year and has on the drawing board an additional unit, slightly larger, designed exclusively for export. Both units have the technology to generate adequate solar electric power and harvest, store, and purify essential water. The ability to manufacture ADUs for the American market and supply limited products for the export market is the perfect springboard to test the market into undeveloped, island, and other nations’ housing needs. With anticipated success, the options for supplying overseas demand are manifold, including scaling up a US factory or licensing foreign manufacturers.

What are we waiting for? With so much up-side, the US should be paving the way for the availability of a world-affordable, sustainable home. —Mesocore is the American Home.