Because with building costs soaring out of sight, there is pent-up demand for a well-designed, green-built, contemporary home that's actually affordable. That means it has to be efficiently constructed, and the best way to do this is in a factory, where it can be put together on an assembly line, like an automobile. A company has developed the Glidehouse can be built that way in 19 days in a factory near Vancouver, British Columbia, then trucked to your property. Glidehouse is produced through: