RESPAND Housing
Workforce and affordable housing. Shipped flat. Built on a grid.
RESPAND Housing builds permanent homes and staff housing from the RESPAND Building System. Start with the homes you need today. Add more as you grow.
Two markets
Housing for the people who build and run the islands.
Workforce housing
Staff and crew housing that follows the hiring curve.
- Resorts and residential developments
- Construction and infrastructure projects
- Mining, industrial and utility sites
- Clinic staff quarters on remote islands
Buy the camp, or let RESPAND own it and pay per occupied bed per day.
Affordable living
Permanent homes for families, built on islands where block and concrete trades are scarce.
- Government and public housing programs
- Essential-worker housing
- Homes for Family Islands and remote communities
- Rebuilding after a storm
Homes in 4 ft steps, from one catalogue of parts.
Why the RESPAND Building System
An engineered home without the wait for concrete trades.
Every block, bag and tradesperson on an island comes by boat. RESPAND moves most of the work to a factory and ships the home as one coordinated load.
Ships to any island a container can reach
The superstructure arrives in standard 40 ft high cube containers. Concrete is needed only for foundations and wet-area beds.
A small crew assembles it
Floors and walls arrive as finished cassettes with the same connection at every node.
Known parts, known quantities
Each home is a take-off by part from the catalogue before the order is placed.
Durable materials
Galvanized steel and MgO board do not rot and are not food for termites.
Engineered for hurricanes
Designed for 180–200 mph wind to the Bahamas Building Code and ASCE 7-22. Concept design; Engineer of Record verification in progress.
Built to grow
Add rooms, homes or whole blocks on the same grid. Single storey first; 2 and 3 storeys are planned.
Reference house · Concept design
1,281 sq ft. Two containers.
The design basis checks the system against a single-storey reference house of 4 × 5 bays (about 32 ft × 40 ft). Container 1 holds every floor and ceiling cassette. Container 2 holds the walls, posts and roof kit.
- Whole 4 × 8 MgO sheets: no sheet is cut
- One pier per grid node
- Rooms laid out in 4 ft steps inside the bays
Concept design used to check the system. It is not a priced product. Concept design; Engineer of Record verification in progress. A high cube loading trial will confirm the container fit.
Reference house grid: 4 × 5 bays of 8' × 8'. Room layout not shown.
Built to grow
Start with the homes you need today.
Housing on the same grid grows in phases: the first homes open while the next ones are made and shipped.
RESPAND Ownership
Need a camp, not a capital project?
For workforce housing, RESPAND can own the camp. We set it on your site, run it with a catering partner and charge one daily rate per occupied bed for room and board.
- Capital stays in your project
- One rate covers room and board
- Capacity follows your workforce
- Nothing stranded at the end
RESPAND Housing
Tell us about your site and your people.
Send the location, how many people you need to house now and later, and whether you want to buy the homes or let RESPAND own the camp.