![]() ![]() The federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (better known as the HUD Code) are a stringent series of construction and safety standards and regulations that ensure that manufactured homes are superior to mobile homes. Jennison added, “A tornado and hurricane’s deadly force does not selectively discriminate between a site-built, a manufactured home or any structure.” MHI also urges individuals to be safe during a storm and to seek proper shelter. Each manufactured home also bears a label certifying that is has been designed, constructed, tested and inspected to comply with the federal standard. Conventional residential construction does not require all of this. In addition, federal regulations for manufactured homes require the involvement of design and quality assurance professionals during construction to verify that the home is built correctly. Manufactured homes are designed and constructed to withstand wind speeds of 150 miles per hour in Wind Zone 2 and 163 miles per hour in Wind Zone 3, based on standards from the 2012 International Building Code. In areas prone to hurricane-force winds (Wind Zones II and III), the standards for manufactured homes are equivalent to the current regional and national building codes for site-built homes. In most of the country (non-hurricane-prone areas), manufactured homes are built to withstand a 136 miles per hour wind speed when they are located in Zone 1 of the HUD Basic Wind Zone Map. ![]() The homes are engineered for wind safety based on the geographic region in which they are sold.” “The building materials in today’s manufactured home are the same as those used in site-built homes. “The standards for manufactured housing are subject to robust compliance and quality assurance regulations, sometimes more stringent than those for traditional site-built homes,” says Richard Jennison, President and CEO of MHI. The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), the national trade association for the factory-built housing industry, is working to clear up the negative stereotypes about manufactured homes and inform the public that since 1976 they have been built to rigorous federal standards. 30, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Manufactured homes are as safe as traditional homes during a storm, and in hurricane zones, the standards for manufactured homes are more stringent than regional and national building codes for site-built homes. ![]()
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