It's not your weird cousin's mobile home. In general, "Systems-Built" means that home construction takes place in a factory, before being assembled onsite in pieces or modules. Many European countries, Canada and Japan all employ modular production as a major home-building technique.

INOVA uses this construction process to build our high-end residences, because it allows us to produce higher quality homes faster and for less money than traditional, "stick-built" (site built) methods.

Quality
"Systems-Built" buildings are built to a higher level of quality than stick-built (site built) structures, in part because they must be able to withstand the stresses of transport. Joints are tighter, fasteners more accurately applied and material is cut with more exactness.

Saving Time and Money
The building process decreases construction time. Custom stick-built homes can take two or three times longer to finish than a similar "Systems-Built" home. How? Because the foundation work and the building fabrication occur simultaneously; and factory construction leverages specialized construction teams, equipment and facilities. As a result, prefabrication saves money.

Sustainable Building Practices
Prefabrication homes also support sustainable building practices. Thirty to forty percent of the material used to construct a typical stick-built home ends up in a landfill. With a modular home-building process, only about two percent of materials (on average) end up as waste.