KHIC CORE Unit Makes News
Friday July 20, 2007
For almost 40 years, Kentucky Highlands Investment
Corporation has succeeded in bringing jobs and investment to Southern and
Our latest efforts could be a model in providing the solution to substandard plumbing for the almost 17,000 homes in Appalachian Kentucky that need it. Manufactured housing component modules known as housing cores include a completely finished kitchen, bath and laundry that meet universal design standards.
Recently, more than 100 volunteers completed an extreme home
build that featured a CORE unit. The idea has caught the attention of the
media, including the Lexington Herald-Leader, which ran a front page
story and two photos on the initiative. A copy of that article has been
included. It also was featured on WKYT-TV, WYMT-TV and more than 100 radio
stations across the commonwealth.
KHIC intends to build a total of 20 houses during the next
three years using this technique, but the long-term goals and benefits are
far-reaching and include:
- Providing all the mechanical parts of the house in a factory-built unit, which will make it easier for volunteer groups to build houses because most of the complex plumbing and electrical tasks have been done before work at the site begins;
- Saving labor and materials by being built in a controlled factory environment, which would reduce total construction costs; and
- Creating
jobs for
We would like to thank the many partners in our CORE
projects, including the USDA-Rural Development, Federal Home Loan Bank of
Cincinnati, Kentucky Housing Corporation, Appalachian Regional Commission, McCreary
County Community Housing Development Organization and Kentucky Baptist
Fellowship.
If you’d like more information, please contact Elmer Parlier or me at 606-864-1575, or via email at eparlier@khic.org or jrickett@khic.org