Home Construction
We make National Lifestyle Villages’ homes superior in eight key ways.
National Lifestyle Villages constructs each home using the latest steel-frame technology, rather than conventional brick and tile.
We’ve chosen to do this to ensure that Lifestylers enjoy the following 8 big benefits:
1. Longer useable life.
Steel-framed homes have a longer life than brick homes. They can be relocated for an alternative future use, if the owner chooses to do this.
This is the ultimate in recycling and much more sustainable for the planet.
2. Higher security and Village amenity.
National Lifestyle Village homes feature steel-frames rather than brick and tile because we can build the homes off-site and maintain a much higher degree of security and Village amenity while construction takes place.
Of course, using the same trades people on the installation of every home enables superior quality control than having a different team building every house.
For example, the same carpet layer, carport builder, and painter completed the first one thousand National Lifestyle Villages homes.
To build a brick and tile home can take nine months or longer with trades people there every day.
This means that for the first five years of a Village with brick and tile homes, it would be just a frantic, noisy construction site, with very low security and poor amenities for the people living there.
3. Less disruption to the neighbours.
Using steel-framed homes which are built off-site means there’s very little disruption to neighbours when a home is installed. In fact, there’s only five weeks of interruption rather than nearly a year in the case of a brick and tile home.
Our approach enables the Village to be completed within a much shorter period of time, with a large amount of the construction work being done offsite.
4. Its much clearer who is responsible for what is in the lease agreement.
Using steel-framed housing means that we can build each home in sections and still have it positioned on concrete footings. The customer owns the home and has exclusive use of the land.
The home’s structure and positioning clearly separates the home from the land, and therefore makes it easy to articulate in the lease agreement what the Village operator is responsible for and what the home owner is responsible for.
5. You know precisely who owns what in the Village.
Brick and tile construction muddies the water in terms of who owns what in a Village situation.
The lease agreement articulates the responsibility of the landlord and the responsibility of the home owner. We can therefore maintain a higher degree of security, and a higher degree of uniformity in terms of expectation of landscaping and amenity of the community.
6. Faster construction with higher quality standards.
The Village can be complete many times faster and with much higher quality standards.
A home can be built, delivered and ready to live in within 120 days, regardless of the number which have been purchased.
7. There are fewer delays.
The factory-style construction and production line methodology enable your home to be built very quickly compared to brick and tile construction.
Its construction progress cannot be disrupted by bad weather or poor access to the extent traditionally built homes can.
Our speed of construction is extraordinary in the building industry.
8. Each home is individually engineer certified to comply with the Building Code of Australia.
Which testifies to the fact that National Lifestyle Villages homes are a quality product.