PHOTO: DAVID WALKER/STUFF – Price was the major reason Margie and Pat Lamborn chose to get their Christchurch home made in a Chinese factory, but they are pleased with the result.
Pat and Margie Lamborn’s 3-bedroom hillside home in Christchurch was built in a Chinese factory, and they moved in 10 days after it landed on the wharf at the Port of Lyttelton.
Echotech Homes, which delivered the Lamborns’ new digs four years ago, says that by mid-2019 Chinese factories could build 7000 to 8000 houses a year to help fill demand in the New Zealand housing market.
The company now has about 60 Chinese factory-made homes scattered around the country and founder Tony Frost is gearing up for larger housing and commercial developments.
Huge Chinese factories produce house modules fitted with bathrooms and kitchens, which are clipped together here using relatively unskilled local labour.
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