The Offsite Construction Task Force’s Project LIFT targets the completion of five “open-source” affordable housing demonstration projects—totaling 500 homes (“units”)—in five years. This five-project pilot will utilize modular and offsite construction strategies and will develop and distribute a scalable open-source housing development model for our state.
Project LIFT is structured as a data-based R&D project with constant report-out of success, failures, opportunities, and needs. The open-source affordable housing development model produced at the end of the pilot will document the design, construction, financing, and municipal participation needed for teams to develop successful modular affordable housing at scale in the Seattle-King County region.
The pilot’s five demonstration projects will be built in series, with some overlap, to ensure constant application of lessons learned and progress toward these ultimate targets for the fifth and final project:
- 100-unit multi-family apartment designed with a diverse unit size mix.
- $250K average per-unit cost.
- Net-zero energy sustainability performance.
- One-year total project timeline, including design, permitting, and construction.
Project LIFT will support the identification of and feasibility study for five sites for affordable offsite modular construction in the state.