The Alaska Modular Home - As Tough As They Come
Posted on March 17, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
Does the idea of living in an Alaska modular home strike you as just this side of insane? Are you picturing gale force winds, nights which last for months, and sheets of ice weighing down your modular roof to its breaking point?
If so, you can relax. You may not have known that in the oil company British Petroleum, which built the Alaska pipeline during the 1970s, uses modular housing to house its construction employees on Alaska’s North Slope. The terrain and weather conditions on Alaska’s North Slope are among the harshest on Earth, with permafrost which never thaws. The average temperature on the North Slope is 9.7 degrees, and where the wind never stops blowing and fifty-mile an hour gusts, producing wind chills of fifty below, are monthly occurrences.
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