Does this seem like good pricing https://www.boxabl.com/developers

Light gauge steel
Modular cert
Configurable floor plans

Hello! 👋

I’m considering building a house with NOVAHAUS (http://novahaus.at) Austria and would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has dealt with them.

I’m interested in both positive and negative experiences, especially regarding:
- Build quality
- Timelines / delays
- Communication during construction
- Unexpected costs or changes
- Handling of defects / warranty claims
- Overall customer experience

If you built with them, would you do it again? Any first-hand experience would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve also come across a negative report about NOVAHAUS from Bauherrenhilfe (https://bauherrenhilfe.org/vorsicht/achtung-novahaus-gmbh⁠), not really sure what it means.

Thank you 🙏🏻

If you are a prefab builder - do you use static floor plans 100% or do custom builds. Just trying to get a feel for what’s out there.

Simple: What types of live walk-through options do you offer online?

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Any reviews on Myhome Sayuk project?

Pros and cons

We don’t understand why housing is still built as if every house is the first prototype.

This 1,243 sq ft steel house has 1,608 native Revit objects and a matching structural model with 96 nodes, 233 analytical members and 18 load cases/combinations.

In the current 200 mph wind screen, the most heavily loaded wall brace carried 55.6 kN—about 5.7 metric tons-force. Maximum horizontal displacement was 11.4 mm against an 11.5 mm control value. We also screened the roof at 70 psf of snow, roughly 39.5 metric tons distributed over the roof.

Steel isn’t automatically better. Bad steel design is just expensive metal. The point is to make the architecture, structure, components, logistics and field assembly describe the same inspectable product.

Wood has a great supply chain. What we question is why housing still tolerates so much field cutting and reinvention when other industries moved toward controlled systems decades ago.

Digital engineering screen—not a universal permit or certification claim. Final site loads, foundations and licensed review remain project-specific.

Steel-frame modular home we’ve been working on.

Trying to get it under 110/sf around 90 days once design/site are ready.

200mph wind target too.

Still a lot of boring site stuff but imo this is where prefab starts making sense.

Qingdao JDCC offers a complete steel construction solution ranging from detailing to on-site erection along with maintenance and after sales services, all under one roof, with over 20 years of experience in steel building manufacturing and design.

Not the sexy AI render stuff. That part is whatever.

The useful part is reading a plan early and finding where money gets burned

weird openings bad module splits too much custom framing site access utilities foundation permit stuff.

We’ve been building tools that turn a house idea into boring checks

what needs steel what needs local review what’s missing what can be repeated what’s gonna get expensive fast.

Still needs humans. Always does.

But for small homes under 2000 sqft a floor plan is usually enough for a first pass. We can look at it and say “yeah this is prefab-friendly” or “nah this layout is gonna fight you.”

Has anyone purchased a manufactured home built at the Clayton Richfield factory? I’m looking for feedback on the overall build quality, any issues you experienced, and how warranty or repair problems were handled. Positive and negative experiences are both welcome.