Prairie Prefab
 

Prairie Prefab is a 60 acre rural estate housing development in north central Indiana. The project includes site work as well as the design and building of 15 high end highly sustainable custom modular estate homes designed to be nestled into the prairie and wooded landscape. The overall project strategy has its foundations in Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian homes efforts.

MGI is providing a full range of services from site planning, entitlement processing, architectural design, modular design, and ultimately building and construction management services.

Prairie Prefab is a design-build-develop project for Prairies Edge LLC.

NOLA  Shotgun House

Project
 

The Shotgun House Project is a post-Katrina urban infill project for New Orleans, LA. After the devastating storm and flooding in New Orleans, Prairies Edge LLC asked MGI to develop a modular re-housing strategy for the older and higher ground lands within the City of New Orleans. After a full analysis of the area, potential community recovery efforts and available properties, MGI developed The Shotgun House Project program for urban infill of a NOLA traditional housing type.

The Shotgun House Project is a joint design-build-development project with MGI and Prairies Edge LLC.

Modular  Urban
Infill 

Prototypes
 

Following on the in-depth work of The Shotgun House Project as urban infill for NOLA, MGI has embarked on developing modular urban infill prototypes for other cities as well. Most urban areas have vacant or underutilized areas that could use new project options. One of the advantages of working with off-site modular methods of construction is the huge reduction in time spent on-site during construction. In urban areas, site-built construction projects have significant impacts on the communities they are being built in. Modular solves that problem.

MGI is currently in development of both single family and multi-family urban housing prototypes for Midwestern cities.

Disaster Recovery Centers
 

One of the business lessons of the post-911and post-Katrina world is that the only hope a business has of maintaining continuity through and past a disaster is by planning ahead and preparing for the worst. Working with an office leasing company, MGI designed a full suite of disaster recovery centers. These facilities can be utilized as hot or cold sites, and can be used at fixed locations or mobile/relocatable locations. Because they are modular and mobile, they can be reconfigured based on particular corporate needs. They are complete offices in that they are fully prepared buildings. They are pre-plumbed, pre-wired for power and IT/high speed networking, and they are even fully furnished and equipped. Should disaster strike, they are designed to be occupied and fully operational with the flip of a switch.

MGI provided design and engineering services to Jobsite Leasing Company for this project.

Modular Production Sustainability Consulting
 

MGI works closely with our sister manufacturing company in Indiana. The plant has been extremely aggressive in finding ways to promote energy conservation and sustainability in its day to day operations for the past several years. MGI has provided general guidance on implementation strategies at the plant. More recently, the plant decided to explore implementing green building practices in its product line of mobile and modular structures. These efforts have been invaluable at informing the design to build process in terms of strategies to employee that actually attain green goals in a cost effective manner.

To date several projects have been completed including The Cube, a highly sustainable modular building prototype, and the HPMO™, or High Performance Mobile Office™.

The Cube

HPMO

MGI provided design, sustainability analysis, production recommendations and engineering services to Jobsite Trailer Corporation for these projects.