Company News & Press

December 18, 2024

IUNIT - GAF Energy Announce Solar Roof Shingles

We are excited and thankful for the opportunity to work with our partners at GAF Energy to incorporate their solar roof shingle at the factory giving us a turn-key energy efficient home from the factory. This has been my dream since starting the company, building a home that is attainable and sustainable, producing as much energy as it consumes and possibly even more. Our first 2 Cottages incorporating this system will be featured as part of our Virginia Housing Innovation Grant in partnership with Accomack County of.Stay tuned as we share more information along the building the process and thank you to all our partners for their continued support!

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November 12, 2024

IUNIT - Champion Homes Continue Relationship

IUNIT and Champion Homes continue their relationship as they work together to bring more sustainable attainable housing throughout the US and are excited to work together to build the Virginia Housing Innovation Cottages. Below is the official PR with further details on build and specs and partners.  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241112508481/en/Champion-Homes-and-iUnit-Communities-Bring-Innovative-Energy-Efficient-Housing-to-Virginia

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September 17, 2024

IUNIT Named 2024 Virginia Housing Innovation Winner

IUNIT is excited to announce that they have been selected as the 2024 Innovation Grant Winners in partnership with Accomack County.This Innovation Grant will fund the construction of two newly designed energy efficient Cottages by iUnit that will including new cutting edge solar roof shingles from GAF Energy that will be installed at the factory and will help offset energy usage. The official PR is linked belowhttps://www.virginiahousing.com/news/24-0916-innovation-grant-winners

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March 15, 2019

iUnit Founder invited to speak at the 2019 World of Modular Conference

Our Founder will be speaking at this years World of Modular and sharing some valuable lessons learned. Modular has a great opportunity to help us cost effectively build energy efficient housing and it's by working together and sharing lessons learned that we're able to move the industry forward. iUnit has always been proud to play that role of pioneer and showcase what is possible with these new technologies. Our goal is for each iUnit Community to be better than the last and continue to integrate technology that can help us achieve a sustainable microgrid ready community. It's an honor for us to be working on this very important mission and to hopefully be an example to the rest of the industry of what is possible. 

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March 06, 2019

iUnit Founder speaks at CU Real Estate Forum

The Colorado University real estate program puts together every year a Real Estate Forum to discuss the state of the market in CO and feature new and upcoming trends and technologies. It was an honor for us to be invited this year and share our mission and experience with the CU Community. 

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December 19, 2018

NREL - iUnit Partnership Release Test Results

Excited to share some of our early test results from our work with NREL. Nice to see the confirmation of how much more energy efficient our communities are compared to traditional construction. Thanks NREL for the continued support!

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December 17, 2018

iUnit invited to ULI Smart Cities Conference at Pena Station

Enjoyed sharing our vision with ULI and Panasonic at their Pena Campus. We discussed our smart building approach and how we believe that plays a key role in new smart cities initiatives. Great conversation with the panel and audience!

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November 09, 2017

Champa Flats kickoff meeting at NREL

We're excited to announce our design kickoff for Champa Flats and honored to work with a great team from OZ Architecture. Stay tuned as Champa Flats will be Denver's first microgrid ready sustainable attainable community!

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September 29, 2017

iUnit invited at Denver Startup week

Another great Startup Week for Denver and a pleasure to be part of it! iUnit Founder, Brice Leconte, was on a panel discussing the challenges of growing a technology company and how a partnership with NREL can help facilitate those challenges with strong research support. 

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May 23, 2017

iUnit Founder invited to NMHC Council Meeting

iUnit Founder, Brice Leconte, was invited to speak at NMHC Council Meeting to discuss apartment buildings of the future and how factories will play a key role in building energy efficient communities.

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