Under clear skies and with a backdrop of stunning coastal views, our client’s team came together to bring a Winslow design to life. This moment marked a major milestone in a journey that began long before the crane arrived: a journey shaped by thoughtful planning, intentional design, and close collaboration between clients, designers, manufacturers, and builders.

In this short interview from the 2025 Green Home + Energy Show, BrightBuilt Home’s Managing Principal, Parlin Meyer, shares how our approach to high-performance modular design is changing the way people think about building sustainably. Representing BrightBuilt at both the speaker series and exhibitor booth, Parlin outlines how our net-zero ready home designs deliver elevated energy efficiency, simplified processes, and beautiful, lasting results.

This week's question was fielded by our founder, principal, and architect extraordinaire, Phil Kaplan...

"I sell new construction, and am seeing homes that are steeply increasing in price due to rising costs in materials. Since BrightBuilt is made in a controlled environment, does this help offset some of these increases?"
                                                                   -B. Morrison, New Hampshire

It’s a mobile home! No, it’s manufactured! Wait, is it modular?

Mobile, manufactured, and modular tend to be used interchangeably when talking about pre-fabricated houses (that is to say, homes that are built off-site in a factory and then transported and set on their location). And two of them actually can be used to describe the same sort of house, while the third term is different.