Frequently Asked Questions
What is facility maintenance?
It refers to the activities and processes involved in preserving, repairing, and managing the physical infrastructure and systems of a building or facility.
What makes a trusted commercial building maintenance company?
A trusted facility maintenance service in California is characterized by several key factors.
How much does commercial facility maintenance cost?
The cost of this building maintenance service varies based on factors such as the size and type of facility, the scope of work required, geographic location, and specific client needs.
What If I rent my facility?
We provide a comprehensive scope of work that addresses your specific needs.
What if I only want a few things done to my facility now but may want more in the future?
We can work together to get your short term and long term goals addressed and planned for.
What is a panelized home?
A panelized home is much like a conventional stick-built home, it is not a trailer or modular home.
Our panelized home kits are built in a climate-controlled production facility enabling us to control both quality and cost. Our production facility ensures the efficient and quality construction of our panelized home kits. Panelized components make it possible for you to frame your home in a significantly shorter time while minimizing waste and controlling costs.
Panelized homes have been around since the early 1900’s. Sears sold kit homes as did a variety of other suppliers. Even Frank Lloyd Wright-designed kit homes. Those homes have become treasures in their neighborhoods. Panelization is very common in commercial projects due to the cost-effectiveness and speed of construction. Chances are you have even stayed in a hotel or lived in an apartment building that was panelized. You can’t tell the difference between a panelized building and a stick-built one. There is even a good chance that your current home is panelized.
Can I design my own panelized home?
Yes! You can build your own panelized home plan.
You can send us your plan by email. Or if you prefer, you can select a home from the 2,000 plans we offer and we can still make adjustments to those plans to your liking. The majority of our customers like to customize or personalize their homes. Personalizing plans is our specialty. There is no home too small or too large.
What type of foundation can I place my panelized home on?
A panelized home can be placed on any type of foundation that is typical for your building area.
Customers have used basements, crawlspaces, stem walls, piers, and slabs. Additionally, wood, cement, cement blocks, and other materials have been used. Landmark needs to know which one you will use so that we can design your home appropriately.
What is included in a panelized home kit?
We supply the preliminary plans, final plans, assembly plans, the panelized home kit, and full customer service.
Our standard panelized home kit contains the following:
Floor System, Walls, Roof System, Stairs, Connectors, Delivery, Engineering Support, Customer Service, Special Materials, Framing Methods, and Building Requirements.
Can Lupine help with engineering Permits?
Yes, we are very familiar with the engineering processes necessary to obtain permits in
areas where there are earthquakes, expansive soils, flood zones, high wind speeds, bracewalls, beam and header calculations and other natural forces.
Some building departments only need beam and header calculations while others require fully engineered plans. The engineers creating the panelized home plans are licensed in all 50 states and some other countries so it is easy for us to help you. Where sealed engineered plans are required, Lupine can coordinate design, engineer, and deliver your panelized home kit as “one-stop shopping.” Our engineered seals make it much easier for you during the planning, permitting, and construction stages of your new home project. You don’t have to coordinate draftsmen, engineers, and production people.
Energy calculations, can Lupine provide them?
Yes, we can help you with energy calculations for whichever of the 50 states in which you are building.
We can also develop different structures, trusses, and framing methods to help you better insulate your home.
Is the panelized home kit American made?
Yes! We have great American quality and customer service.
The wood is all from the United States. However, at times we have to get SPF (spruce, pine, fir) studs from Canada. If you need American SPF, please let us know and we can accommodate you. All nails and connectors are US-made as well.
Is all the wood grown in sustainable forests?
Yes, all the wood in our panelized home kits is from sustainable forests.
We plan on providing quality homes for many years to come and want to make sure we have materials to service our future generations of customers.
