High-Tech Eco-Friendly Brentwood Home Built in 2 Days?

Interested in a new home that's prefab and evergreen too? It's expected to go on the market soon and it's only taking two days to put together. Some call this the wave of the future in environmentally correct homes.
A conventional high-end home of this size usually takes one to two years to build. This modular environmentally friendly version will be done in just days, and when it's complete it will be wired with all the latest high-tech gadgets and energy efficient appliances too. So if you're looking for a new home, this showcase house could be on the market by the end of this year.

Fifty-thousand pounds of steel lowered carefully into place. It's just one of the 15 prefab modules that together will make up this modern state-of-the-art luxury home. In just two days the 4,000-square-foot living space will be 70 percent complete. With a little plumbing, electrical and lots of high-tech bells and whistles, developers hope it will strike the perfect balance between green living, high technology and high design.

"It's an architectural masterpiece," says homeowner Phillip Beron. "It's by one of the premier architects in California history, from Ray Kappe."

The home is the second green-living project for architect Ray Kappe and LivingHomes CEO and Founder Steve Glenn. The first was built last year in Santa Monica, a 2,500-square-foot modern home that took just one day to assemble.

"We're really talking about trying to reduce costs and reduce time, so that's where we are going so these can be built in much shorter time," says architect Ray Kappe.

Phillip Baron, who owns the new home under construction, admits he wasn't too keen on green living until he met Steve Glenn.

"I didn't realize that a third of all the landfills are filled with construction waste and a lot of that is because as you bring materials to the site and you cut and you measure and you throw everything else away. When it's done in a factory, there is significantly less waste," said Beron.

Less waste in the building phase and throughout the life of the home. Most, if not all the materials used, are recycled and the home, with solar-power panels and energy-efficient lights, will more than do its part for the planet.

"There are a bunch of things that make it a healthier, more sustainable place in terms of both how it's constructed, and then how it operates in an ongoing basis," said Steve Glenn.

Come the end of October, this showcase house will be open to the public so you can see it for yourself.

This house won't be cheap. It will be in the millions.

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