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May

More Factory Built Homes

Housing will become more industrialized in the coming decade with more factory-built housing and more partially built units completed by large home builder companies in their own prefabrication plants.

Don Spear, president of LSI Systems, Inc., a housing market research firm, and Dr. Tom Nutt-Powell, of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard and M.I.T., credit present and future trends in the manufactured housing industry to continued high labor costs and more sophisticated automation.

One of the most drastic changes over the next decade will be a shift in the percentages of the different types of housing. Smaller family size, increased costs for land and continued high construction costs will prevent a return to larger and more expensive single family detached units, according to the two experts.

As the need for small houses increases, the manufactured housing industry should flourish. Mobile homes should increase nearly threefold, and panelized houses should increase more than 6990, according to their 10 year outlook.

Dr. Nutt-Pou'ell singles out manufactured housing from stickbuilt, pointing out that manufactured housing maintains a eon:istent creu , training and controllable costs for matcrials and personnel. Although manufactured housing's negative image has sometimes affected its market base and role in the housing industry, he feels the concept should appeal to the mass market.

NFPA Explores New Markets

\\ra1s thc inclr-rst11'can cxpand ntar kets for wood products \\'ere erplorcd in I I special sessior.rs at the National Forcst Products Association's 82nd annual meeting in Palm Beach, Fl Nov. l3 - 15.

A fire 1'ear plan for the proclucts division and opportunitics for tradin-e u'ith China were among thc topics covered.

W. Carroll Larnb, erecutir.'c vice president of the Florida Forestrl' Assoeiatitrn. ofrcllerl tlrr' errrrrcnlior) u'hich folloned tlie therrie "Opening the Door to Erpandcd Markets in the '80s." Also pulsuing this idea *as

('harlcs \\I. Ilingharn, crecutirc rice prcsiclcnt ol' thc \\'cverhaeuscl Co., *ho discussecl the industry ancl consumcr- trcncls for il'ood products, outlining actions nccessarv to crpand nrarkets for thcse products at honre ancl ovcrseas.

Dr. Anthonr, Don'ns, scnior fellori at the Brookings Institute, \\Iashington, D.C., highlighted factors inlluencing the outlook for residcntial and nonresidential constrLlction ove| thc coming Vears.

Douglas Kiker, Washington correspondcnt for NllC Nightll' Neus, appraiscd the groLrp of the task facing thc Prcsiclent ancl Congress in rcducin.' th.- f,-derrrl deli,'ir

Robert F. Higgins, prcsidcnt of the N1cdlord Corp., Mcdford, Or., u'as elccted chairman of the board ol governors, succccding .lohn F. Forrest, senior r'.p., timber and *ood products group, Boise Cascacle (-orp., *ho becamc past chairman.

Richard W. Buchanan Jr., Buchanan Lunrber Co., N{ontgomerl, Al., u'as electecl first vice chairman, and .lohn E. Stevens, presidcnt, Kirby Forcst Industries, lnc., Houston, Tx., was named second vice chairnran and treasurer.