These homes are finished with hempcrete, one of our alternative styles.

 

MFI West

​MFI West - Martin Family Homes

 

MFI’s Martin Family Homes will produce beautiful, strong, weather resistant, and affordable homes on assembly lines in Jacksonville, Florida. We will use strong steel shipping containers for the frames instead of wood frames that are weak and subject to mold, rot, termites, water, and fire damage. Just as you don’t see the wood frames, you won’t see the steel frames. We will cover the exterior in cement or hempcrete-based 4’x8’ panels that look like real stone, stucco, brick, and wood as made by Hardie Board and Gen Stone. They beautify the home while providing insulation, resistance to flying debris and fire up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Hardened spray foam insulation will be applied to all surfaces to make them very energy efficient. The interiors will be covered in lovely strong materials that are easy to maintain and are not subject to damage as is drywall. 

Martin Family Homes will all be more affordable because the roof and wall frames don’t have to be built, and their exterior and interior elements will be applied on an assembly line like cars are built. This will improve the quality of their construction and reduce the man-hours from weeks to hours to complete a unit. Because they are based on shipping containers, they can be easily delivered by trucks, trains and ships to a lot where multiple units can be reassembled in one day and attached to pillar foundations and then connected to the utilities. This will save the homeowner time and money as well. We also will double their usable space by making a roof deck with a spiral staircase and a nice fence that will be shaded by an eight-foot-high steel frame. It will support graphene solar panels and batteries to power the home. They will enable the owner to control the rising cost of electricity which will make for an affordable future on which you can reliably plan. The panels and roof can also have rain catches that can purify and store water. 

If a person makes $15 per hour on an annual basis, they should be able to afford to buy one of our homes that is 8’ x 40’ or 320 sf with 2 bedrooms & 2 bathrooms with a living room and full kitchen and a roof deck or a 16’ x 40’ or 640 sf (square feet) and has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with a nice living room & full kitchen and with a roof deck. For a little more they can add another 8’x 20’ unit with a bedroom and bathroom as a second story with a deck on top of it as well. 3 units joined side by side make 960 sf, 4 units make 1,280 sf, 5 units make 1,600 sf, 6 units make 1,920 sf, 7 units make 2,240 sf. All of them can have units added on top. They are designed for shipping across the seas to carry 80,000 pounds and be stacked 8 high so they can easily be stacked to make a smaller footprint and still get the square footage that is desired. 

Martin Family homes will be built to the highest Miami Dade/California/Illinois standards so they can get a permit anywhere and they will look good so they will be acceptable in many various neighborhoods.  

  

We want to serve the needs of everyone from homes for cities to help house the homeless, to crisis housing for areas devastated by floods, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes and other natural and man-made disasters to homes for the workforce, middle class and upper class. MFI homes will be appropriate for HUD, FEMA, and Habitat for Humanity as well as the general public. They can be purchased by anyone online through Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, social media sites, and other sales channels. 

Additionally, they can be stacked to make 2 story single family homes, town homes, condos, apartments, hospitals, retail shops and many other applications. 

Due to their modular nature, they are not prone to a catastrophic collapse like concrete structures. They can have large glass walls or sliding glass doors around them.  

All the glass windows, glass walls and sliding glass doors will be made from impact glass, so they won’t be subject to break ins or flying debris in a hurricane or tornado. We also can provide Energy Glass that will resist breaking from fire up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit which, along with the fire-resistant siding, make for a very fire-resistant home. The Energy Glass also can produce up to 6 Watts per sf of electricity from any light source both incoming as well as reflected out and it has been tested against 50 Caliber bullets, Claymore Mines, Rocket Propelled Grenades and trucks trying to ram through it so it will be able to take 200+ miles per hour flying debris in a severe storm. The Graphene batteries and solar panels are also highly resistant to hail and flying debris. 

MFI homes are wonderful homes that are made for our time. We recycle containers and use materials that have less negative impact on our environment. They can be tied to the electrical grid or used off the grid with a geothermal AC. The containers can be pools too. Everyone wants beautiful, affordable, energy efficient, and weather resistant homes.  

For more Information: 

Email: info@mfiwest.com 

Website: mfiwest.com 

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