A new partnership between Charlotte-based OFFSITEK and Universal Storage Container will build tiny homes to address housing challenges in the Charlotte Region and around the world.
On any given night, roughly 582,500 people experience homelessness in the United States, with 40% of those in unsheltered locations, according to the 2022 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Universal Storage Containers LLC (USC) and OFFSITEK LLC look to reduce that number by quickly manufacturing and delivering shelter and transitional housing to organizations and municipalities working to address homelessness and affordable housing challenges.
“After a nationwide search to locate a strategic partner in the U.S. to manufacture Universal Storage Container (USC)’s portfolio of mobile storage, tiny home, and instant-shelter products, USC announced that it has selected OFFSITEK as the best-of-the-best to be the manufacturer of record,” Peter Nemiroff, managing partner & president of USC, said. “We are very proud and excited to begin making our products at their state-of-the-art automated robotic manufacturing facility in Charlotte. This exciting, new relationship enables USC to position itself as the leader in providing affordable and transitional housing and shelters for the homeless, providing immediate solutions for families needing shelter during natural disasters, and providing solutions to municipalities who are challenged with these issues.”
Nemiroff estimates the agreement will generate approximately $250 million in revenue in the next five years, adding millions of affordable container homes and shelters for people in need. OFFSITEK anticipates creating 150 new jobs in the Charlotte Region to meet the demand.
OFFSITEK LLC was established by Rick Admani Abulhaj and Dwight Morgan, two technology pioneers who in 2019 had a vision to transform the construction industry into Industrialized Construction (IC). IC uses industrialized production methods to build buildings, leading to reduced lead times and affordability. OFFSITEK’s IC prefabrication ecosystem consists of a suite of enabling technologies that are used to create and offer affordable housing solutions that are beautiful, high-quality, sustainable, stronger, more energy-efficient, and with a superior life-cycle durability.
“OFFSITEK is honored to be awarded this contract to apply our unique industrialized-construction (IC) solution to address the affordable housing and homelessness initiatives currently underway throughout the nation,” Dwight Morgan, chief manufacturing officer for OFFSITEK, said.
