New World Home is an award winning producer of sustainable housing dedicated to fulfilling the convergence of historically inspired design and state-of-the-art green products with advanced building science and ultra-efficient manufacturing methodologies. The end result represents the advent of the New Old Green Prefab® home. A New World Home respects our country’s rich architectural heritage, integrates all of the modern amenities of the 21st century and exceeds the most stringent green building performance standards in the housing industry.
Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid: Your Path to Building an Energy-Independent Home featuring multiple New World Home projects has been released and is currently hitting bookstores around the country. The widely anticipated sequel to Prefabulous + Sustainable: Building & Customizing an Affordable, Energy-Efficient Home includes a forward written by Robert Redford and features 32 of the greenest projects in the nation. New World Home is honored to be the only builder/designer to have multiple projects included in this prestigious array of green homes.
Prefabulous series author Sheri Koones illustrates the many ways of using prefabrication to create almost-off-the-grid homes – houses that are not only environmentally friendly but also function on a fraction of the energy required by most houses, and additionally are more comfortable, healthier, quieter inside and far cheaper to operate. New World Home projects highlighted in the book include homes in East Hampton, NY; World Financial Center, NYC – Crystal Springs, NJ and Oldwick, NJ.
Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid is published by Abrams Books and is available online and in bookstores around the country.
The Star-Ledger, NJ’s largest online newspaper, today published an update on the New Jersey Shore rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of Sandy. The Home & Garden article features multiple New World Home regional projects. Tyler Schmetterer, original New World Home founder, describes how these and other projects are contributing to the architectural integrity and safety of future generations of NJ homeowners.
In western New Jersey, there’s a high-profile supporter of modular building in former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. On the family’s Tewksbury farmstead, Whitman’s daughter Kate lives in a traditionally styled modular home with her husband, Craig Annis, and their four children. For Whitman, who also headed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the dwelling exemplifies how modular construction can produce highly energy-efficient “green” dwellings designed to mesh with historic areas.
The Whitman-Annis house, with its steel roof, conforms to requirements of the Oldwick Historic District in which it is located, says Tyler Schmetterer, founding partner of New World Home, which built the house. “The architecture is equally important as the green attributes,” he says.
Behind the facade of a traditional farmhouse, builders installed bamboo floors, a re- claimed-wood kitchen island, water-conserving kitchen and bathroom fixtures, energy- efficient appliances and other features. “When we design something, we want it to look like it’s been there 150 years,” Schmetterer says.
[Caption] Country Living magazine’s House of the Year in 2010 was this 1,607-square-foot modular cottage designed by New World Home. It was first shown in New York City and then moved to Crystal Springs Resort in Hardystown.
On a verdant lot in Sussex County, another New World Home design had been a model house at Crystal Springs Resort, an example of what could be built in the area. Created in partnership with Crystal Springs and in collaboration with Country Living to produce the magazine’s annual House of the Year in 2010, the 1,607-square- foot cottage spent two weeks as an exhibition at Manhattan’s World Financial Center that year. Then it was disassembled and trucked to its present location in Hardystown.
New Jersey Monthly magazine’s Home & Garden Special, Prefab Goes Green, by Lauren Payne in the May 2013 issue is now available on newsstands.
A factory-made farmhouse delivers old-fashioned looks and up-to-the-minute style and environmental savvy.
This New House on the DIY network checks out the so-called “New Old Green Modular” home. It’s all about respect for architectural heritage, 21st-century amenities and performance exceeding certification standards, all on a schedule that makes these homes move-in ready in just a few weeks.
This New House will air the original New World Home segment on the DIY Network on November 15, 2012 at 7:30pm E/P and again on December 18, 2012 at 7:00 E/P.
The episode, aptly entitled “Brave New World”, includes a house tour of the NJ Governor Whitman family home by Mark Jupiter, original co-founder of New World Home.
CNBC Features New World Home: Are Factory-Built Homes the Future?
Mark Jupiter, original co-founder of New World Home, was recently interviewed live on-air by CNBC.
Modular homes are still considered radical by many builders, but there’s a middle ground between box module and stick-built that they are starting to warm up to. We are of course referring to panelized walls, roof systems, and other prefab components as a means of moderating costs, reducing job site waste, and improving quality with structural pieces that aren’t exposed to weather for long stretches of time. Whereas “factory built” was once considered synonymous with “trailer park,” houses today that incorporate panelized design are nearly impossible to distinguish from conventionally built homes once they’re stitched up. And, contrary to some lingering bias, the prefab stuff is not invariably contemporary. Many factory-built homes now come in traditional styles such as Georgian, colonial, and even Victorian.
Homes in the Country Living Collection by New World Home are about as traditional as they come and – surprise! — they’re modular. The portfolio includes five house plans ranging from 1,100 to 2,300 square feet.
Do you currently own a piece of land? If the answer to this question is yes, then now is the time to unlock the true value of your land.
New World Home builds and delivers homes that are historically inspired, affordably priced and exceed the highest green standards in the industry. Your new home will arrive to your site up to 90% complete and is typically move-in ready in just 120 days from the start of production.
Your home is where your heritage and family history are rooted … to be shared, protected and passed on for future generations. Respecting the past with an eye to the future is a delicate balance that will protect your land for generations to come.
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Co-Founders, New World Home Mark Jupiter and Tyler Schmetterer, Skidmore College roommates who have been best friends for over 25 years, pooled their resources to launch New World Home with the belief that their green modular homes can transform the housing industry. New World Home builds and delivers homes that are historically inspired, affordably priced, and exceed the highest green standards in the industry. Its New Old Green Modulars (NOGMs) have achieved LEED Platinum and NAHB Emerald certification, without relying on costly renewable energy sources (e.g. solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal systems, etc.). Through superior building science, smart design, and an ultra-tight building envelope, the homes achieve a minimum of 50-percent-plus energy savings over a typical site-built home from day 1. Having built several NOGMs in New York, Georgia, and New Jersey, the company has a program to expand nationally through a turnkey licensing program to provide “on-demand housing”—working with developers, builders, landowners, and realtors to create regionally appropriate, sustainable housing. Because its homes have such a short building timeline, there is no longer the need for speculative building. This “on-demand housing” model, the executives feel, will become quite popular. New World Home is building a home in New Jersey for the former Governor and Head of the EPA Christie Todd Whitman’s family. It’s on target to be the first LEED Platinum and NAHB Emerald factory-built home in that state.