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“Western Massachusetts' Premier Systems Built Home Builder”

 
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Welcome to English Building Systems

Western Massachusetts' Premier Systems Built Home Builder

Massachusetts Modular Homes and Custom Built Houses      

English Building Systems (EBS) is a Massachusetts-based builder of modular homes and custom-built houses building in Western Massachusetts. Our commitment is to building the highest-quality energy-efficient custom Massachusetts modular homes while providing excellent customer service and satisfaction.

Building a new home is one of the most exciting things you may do in your lifetime and EBS can help you realize the home of your dreams! Please take a few minutes to review our site to learn more about our modular home plans, system-built homes, and other residential construction services.

Custom Home Builders in Western Massachusetts

EBS is a system built home builder that offers our clients more than one method of residential construction. At EBS we work closely with you to understand your ideas and desires to design a home that integrates the building system that best realizes your dream - and create for you a home that is unrivaled in value. Our primary residential construction building systems are:

  • Modular
  • Timber Frame (post & beam)
  • Oasis® precast foundation systems
  • Solar designs both passive and active.
  • GEO thermal heating and cooling.
  • Radiant floor heat.
  • Masonry heaters with wood fired bake ovens.
  • Natural Houses, constructed with all natural materials.
  • Site built conventional framing.
  • Structurally Insulated Panel (SIP) construction.

New England Custom Built Houses and Modular Home Plans

EBS offers a wide range of residential modular home plans for you to choose from, any of which can be customized to meet your individual needs and ideas. All of our custom built houses and Massachusetts modular homes are energy-efficient and meet or exceed Energy Star requirements. In addition, all of our homes can be designed to meet Universal Design requirements.

Woman Centric DesignIn collaboration with Design Basics, one of the nation’s largest designers of residential home plans, EBS is pleased to offer designs that actually meet the multifaceted needs of today’s home buyers. We design homes that reflect the way you actually live, with plentiful storage, seamlessly integrated relaxation areas, and places to entertain both formally and casually. Additionally, much consideration is given to rooms that can be flexible as your family's requirements change.

Green Building

There are currently more than 70 local and regional programs for determining what it means to be green or a High Performance House in the United States but the two main guidelines are those established by the Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Program and the National Associations of Home Builders (NAHB). More guidelines and programs are in the works including The National Green Building Standard accredited by ANSI. At EBS we firmly believe in building “Green” and are pleased to offer customers:

  • LEED certified homes,
  • Homes that meet the NHBA Green Home Building Guide Lines,
  • Energy Star qualified homes, and
  • Natural Timber Frame Homes built in the vernacular.

For more information on Green Building click here.


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Why Modular?

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State of the Art Technology

EBS offers floor plans from Epoch Homes, and a custom design service in collaboration with Design Basics, one of the nation’s largest designers of residential home plans and the creator of trademarked Woman-Centric-Matters!SM homes and designs.

Found something you like but it’s not quite what you had in mind? EBS uses the latest 3D graphic design software and can customize any Epoch Homes modular home floor plan or any house plan to meet your individual needs.

Today’s timber frame homes and great room additions are beautiful, enduring, and energy efficient. EBS offers timber frame great rooms and timber frame roof truss systems to any of its customers that are interested in integrating timber frame construction into their new home, as well as  full timber frame construction services. EBS is an experienced post and beam builder and a member of the Timber Framer’s Guild. See our Timber Frame Services page for more information.

Woman Centric Designs

System built modular homes offer superior quality at a lower cost. Other advantages include a shorter build cycle, fixed cost, greater energy efficiency, and extended warranties. Because they are built in a factory with a controlled environment and modern manufacturing techniques, system built modular homes are built smarter, faster, and stronger than on-site built homes, and the construction process is quicker and more steamlined. See our Why Modular section to learn more about the specific advantages of our system built modular homes.