Gpods™ are reducing the Carbon Foot Print – one building at a time
Gpods™ are patented pre-fabricated building modules for the multi-family housing and the hospitality industry.
Gpods ™ Save Time:
Unique to modular construction, while modules are being assembled in a factory, site work is occurring at the same time. This permits earlier building occupancy and contributes to a much shorter construction period, reducing financing and supervision costs. Saving even more time and money, nearly all design and engineering disciplines are part of the manufacturing process, also unique to modular, is the ability to simultaneously construct a building’s floors, walls, ceilings, rafters, and roofs. During site–built construction, walls cannot be set until floors are in position, and ceilings and rafters cannot be added until walls are erected. On the other hand, with modern modular methods of construction, walls, floors, ceilings, and rafters are all built at the same time, and then brought together in the same factory to form a building. This process often allows modular construction times of half that of conventional, stick–built construction.
Gpods ™ Save Resources:
Using off–site manufacturing processes can help the construction industry reduce waste, according to a report published by the U.K. group WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme). Off site manufacture shows that there is the potential to make a significant difference to the amount of waste the industry produces. Some of the biggest waste streams in traditional construction are packaging (up to 5%), timber (up to 25%) and plasterboard (up to 36%). Up to a 90% reduction can be achieved by reducing wastes such as wood pallets, shrink wrap, cardboard, plasterboard, timber, concrete, bricks and cement by increasing the use of off-site manufacture and modern methods of construction The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) also recognizes the inherent materials advantages using prefabrication and off-site construction techniques.
Gpods ™ Reduce Environmental Impact:
Fewer job-site environmental impacts because of reductions in material waste, air and water pollution, dust and noise, and overall energy costs, although prefabrication and related technologies Manufacturing building components off–site provides for more controlled conditions and allows for improved quality and precision in the fabrication of the component and ultimately reduced the carbon footprint of the project.
Gpods ™ are Sustainable:
Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations