KRAMER DEVELOPMENT GROUP
STORY OF PROCESS
December 1, 2011
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KDG
PROJECT
REPRESENTS
Like Sending a Man to the Moon...
If
we can set and achieve the goal of sending a man to the moon and
safely returning him to Earth within less than a decade, why can't we
build an energy self-sufficient home? What
were
our
energy-technology
goals
for
new
construction?
By
December
31,
2019
KDG
will
build
one
million
(1,000,000)
net-zero
energy
modular
homes
in
the
US
and
across
six
continents.
We
will
use
the
principles
of
Henry-Fordism
and
present-day
technological
advances.
We
expect
the
price
of
our
home
to
fall
every
year
(costing
less
than
present
new-home
construction)
making it affordable
to
an
ever-increasing
number
of
Americans.
This
project,
beginning
as
an
idea,
fueled
with
intention,
and
backed
by
resources,
must
take
physical
form
to
be
seen
by
the
public
and
the
media.
It
will
not
be
brought
about
by
government,
the
building
industry
or
not-for-profit
organizations.
It
must
begin
with
an
individual
or
entity
that
believes
they
can
change
the
future.
But
why,
some
say,
net-zero
energy
homes?
Why
such
a
lofty
goal
from
day
one?
Today
the
home
building
industry
is
content
with
the
usual
stick-built
home
with
energy
as
an
afterthought.
Especially
in
the
US,
this
status
quo
is
miles
behind
our
modern
capabilities.
So
why
choose
these
goals?
Why?
Because
we
can.
We
choose
to
create
one million KDG net-zero energy homes
in
a
modular
manufacturing
facility
by the end of this decade,
not
because
it will be easy,
but
because
it
will
be
hard;
because
this
goal
will
serve
to
organize
and
measure
the
best
of
our
energies
and
skills
as
a
nation;
because
this
challenge
is
one
that
we
are
willing
to
accept,
one
we
are
unwilling
to
postpone,
and
one
that
we
intend
to
win.
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We
can
no
longer
tell
ourselves
that
implementing
energy
self-sufficient
technology
is
too
complex,
difficult
or
beyond
financial
reason;
nor
will
we
tolerate
inadequacies
and
wastefulness
of
the
decentralized
process
of
single-site
home
building.
Rather,
we
must
raise
our
standards
to
the qualities and efficiencies of a
centralized
process
of
factory-based
mass-manufacturing.
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criteria
for
the
Kramer
Development
Group
Net-zero
Energy
(KDG NZE) modular
home
is
diametrically
opposed
to
affordability. CLICK HERE for the KDG Business Model. Because
affordability
is
our
biggest
challenge
we
are
required
from
day
one
to
challenge
existing
paradigms
and
reevaluate
building
practices,
components
to
be
used,
inefficiencies,
archaic
practices
that
are
status
quo
and
not
questioned
in
the
home-building
industry.
We
demand
energy
design
first,
and
its
integration
with
inventive
products
to
achieve
net
zero
and
the
assembly-line
process
of
modular
home
manufacturing.
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