“This is the sausage getting made.”
Brent Jackson
Founder
HiFAB
.…on how pre-fab homes are built in HiFab’s Grand Prairie factory, via D Magazine.
Last September, Dallas Innovates wrote about HiFAB, a new venture from Dallas-based Oaxaca Interests, building a new studio and manufacturing plant in Grand Prairie Dedicated to creating modular homes, the new plant aimed to begin by producing Haciendas, a line of homes designed by noted San Antonio architecture firm Lake|Flato.
Today, D Magazine published an update on the factory, which has buzzed with activity since its July 10 grand opening. Now, instead of building its prefab houses on home sites, HiFAB is putting them together at the plant in three or four Lake|Flato-designed “modules.” Later, they’ll be put together like Lego blocks once they arrive at their permanent addresses.
HiFAB home designed by Lake|Flato. [Photo: Robert Tsai]
The company does all it can to do as much of the work as possible at the Grand Prairie factory.
“We fully finished these out,” Jackson told D’s Catherine Wendlandt as he showed her modules in the factory. “We drywall, tape, bed, mud, paint, cabinets; all that’s installed here.”
You can see inside the factory and find out more about how it works by reading the D story here.
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HiFAB, a new venture from Dallas-based Oaxaca Interests, will be building modular homes from its new plant on a seven-acre site in Grand Prairie. The first offering: two- and three-bedroom "Haciendas" designed by the noted San Antonio architecture firm Lake|Flato, starting at $249K and $375K. "Simple design is hard to pull off, but it allows us to focus on the details for a cleaner, more efficient way of living," says Oaxaca and HiFAB founder Brent Jackson.
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