The most efficient form of transportation ever devised is an ocean going ship. Less than ten gallons of fossil fuels are used to transport a ton of material from Germany to the US.
When we closely examine the wasteful methods used to build a conventional home, including the hundreds of trips each worker makes to and from the construction site, it becomes clear why a house can be transported from Germany and still remain carbon neutral and earth-friendly.
We’ve overlooked nothing in the 4 stages of efficiency in the Vireo system: factory engineering, transportation, site construction and the home’s performance over time. Taken in its entirety, depending on variances from project to project, a Vireo home has 1/5th to 1/50th the carbon impact of the average American home and that includes transporting it to the site from Germany.
