Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housing crisis fix

Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by intopieces on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:44PM (#14563192)

FTA:

"The tech giant plans to buy 300 units of modular housing to serve as temporary employee accommodations on its planned “Bay View” campus at NASA’s Moffett Field, according to a source familiar with the plan."

Are the units temporary, or are the employees? Serious question.

“The end product is of the highest quality. It’s impossible to tell the difference between a modular construction project and a traditional project, other than that the modular goes up much quicker.”

I would like to see more based on this assertion.

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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by astrodust on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:51PM (#14563255)

Could be they're billed as "temporary" for legal reasons. Another thing to consider is there's a lot of "temporary" housing from the post-WWII era that's still in great shape.

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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:41PM (#14563726)

My university housed chunks of departments it didn't like in one of those buildings. The cyber-security club located its infrastructure (racks of old servers) in the center of the building in a vain attempt to make it settle as fast as the perimeter of the building.

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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by sjg007 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:59PM (#14563348)

It always starts as temporary and then they will petition for it to become permanent.

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Re:Google’s modular apartment plan hailed as possible housin... by randyrand on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:30PM (#14564544)

Probably both. Temporary housing is used for new hires that need a place to stay while looking for apartments themselves, and contractors that fly in.

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