Guided Tour Manufactured Prefab ADU and Tiny House on Wheel Facilities

Friday, Sept. 6th, 8am-4pm

**September 3rd, 2024- Fourth site location just added**

Overview of the Guided Tour

This tour will consist of guided visits to four, small house manufacturing facilities in the Portland Metro region. The owners and staff of each of three manufacturing businesses will present about their production process and answer attendee questions.

Attendees will learn about the large scale ADU production methodologies, and ground-truth the opportunities and shortcomings of prefab ADU development. This is the first tour of its kind, and we expect it to draw policy wonks, affordable housing providers, entrepreneurs, and other niche practitioners.

Kol Peterson will lead the bus tour. We’ll load up at 8am at Taborspace (5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR 97215), and be on the road at 8:30am. We’ll spend approximately an hour at each site. We’ll return to Taborspace by 4pm.

Then, if you wish to attend to the evening presentation at Taborspace beginning at 6pm, plan to return to Taborspace by ~5:30pm to get seats. Attendees can get dinner nearby at a number of locations within walking distance of Taborspace.

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Registered attendees of the Private Guided Tour of Prefab ADU/THOW Factories also get admission to both the Friday evening ADU workshop, as well as the ADU Tour.

Detailed Agenda

Relevant Buildings

The first guided tour stop will be in Relevant Buildings based in Oregon City. They have built 13 container conversion ADUs since 2019.

The all-in costs (home, delivery, foundation, site work, permits, etc.) for their ADU customers typically comes to about $200k-$300k. Costs vary depending on location and the size & complexity of the ADU. 

Wolf Industries

The second stop will be in Battleground, Washington. Attendees can bring their own lunches on the bus with them, or order from a food cart.

Wolf Industries has built and installed approximately 250 units as ADUs in Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Utah, and Montana. Their costs range from $125K-$300K all in.

MODS

Modular construction is the process of building large pieces of a building off-site. MOD’s equipment enables them to componentize the construction process which increases their efficiency. They utilize numerous manufacturing techniques to minimize the kinetic energy that goes into the building process to allow them to focus on quality. They try to utilize as much machinery as we can to eliminate unneeded expense of energy and focus on the details or your project.

Green Anchors

Portland is one of the more progressive cities in the nation when it comes to tiny homes on wheels and RVs. They can be parked and inhabited on all residential properties in the City of Portland, providing a lower cost and very flexible alternative detached ADUs. Read more about this new Portland-born housing phenomena here.

Green Anchors is a center for community engagement through the arts, business, and ecology. For a decade, it has served as an informal hub for the construction of Tiny House on Wheels for DIY and professional builders who need a dedicated space for this large scale construction work.