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Vermont Business Magazine Vermod, a zero-energy, modular and affordable home builder based in Wilder, Vermont won the Best of the Best Innovation Award at Efficiency Vermont’s Better Building by Design Conference Thursday. Vermod was bestowed the 2020 Best of the Best Innovation Award for a 700-square foot home in White River Junction. The two-bedroom home features…

One of the more ambitious plans was when several non-profit organizations teamed up to create the Modular Housing Innovation Project in 2013. It was a pilot program to construct 10 well-insulated and energy efficient modular homes to replace mobile homes.

In the wake of the devastation Tropical Storm Irene inflicted on Vermont’s mobile housing communities in 2011, a coalition of groups, including the Efficiency Vermont and the University of Vermont, teamed up to form the Modular Housing Innovation Project—an initiative that led to the birth of Vermod, a Wilder-based company that designs and builds affordable…

The big excitement on Bethel’s North Main Street yesterday was the installation of Scott and Nelda Putney’s new, energy-efficient Vermod home, now set next to their older home of 26 years. Starting at 8 a.m., or so, a small crew of workers—including the operator of a huge crane and Steve Davis, owner of Vermod—carefully moved…