Hybrid Homes celebrates two years with 200,000 Facebook fans

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Hybrid Homes, the trailblazer and pioneers of Hybrid Construction Technology (HCT) that converts used shipping containers to super luxury, eco-friendly houses, recently crossed the 200,000 fans mark on its interactive Facebook Page. “We are becoming the only Housing and Construction Company in Sri Lanka to reach this milestone with over 200,000 likes on Facebook engaging with our clients and establishing ourselves as the most active Sri Lankan construction company in the sphere of social media,” Hybrid Homes Managing Director Dharshana Fernando said. Fernando highlighted the company recently celebrated its second anniversary since February 2013 in which Hybrid Homes originally introduced this novel hybrid construction technology, which provides an array of advantages against conventional buildings. These modular hybrid buildings are easy to build and cost lower than conventional buildings. Use of recycling shipping containers as the core material makes the hybrid construction technology green and eco-friendly. According to ISO shipping standards a container has a life span of more than 20 years in the tough handling and transport conditions, and thus shipping containers in a better environment may have longer life spans. Fernando said that giving it greater social appeal, the Hybrid Homes Facebook page takes on the role of a social commentator and engages its fans with daily inspirational posts, comments on on-going trends of construction industry also other national and international events. The Hybrid Homes Facebook fanpage also posts a range of useful tips for daily living, such as those on successful lifestyles as how to run a house efficiently, how to save money, energy saving tips and a range of other important household and other tips. “We have identified the importance of social media with it being a far more interactive and engaging medium rather than a traditional medium of media. It acts as an extremely cost efficient communication tool as well as a feedback, research and idea generation mechanism,” Fernando added. He said that they have used the feedback gained from their social media platform to add value to Hybrid Homes’ products and services across the globe. Hybrid Homes is already transforming the lives of Sri Lankans who seek their own home at an affordable price with a long spanning lifetime for what they put in to as investments to build their own home. Hybrid Homes use the best of the new materials and technologies, such as recycled-shipping containers, super-efficient windows and radiant heating, in combination with traditional building materials, creating healthy, comfortable spaces that people love to live in. Over four million (average) shipping containers move through Sri Lankan ports every year, and Hybrid Homes came up with a bright idea for repurposing these ubiquitous steel boxes: Make them into houses, restaurants, hotel rooms, chalets, offices, store rooms, showrooms and even clinics or mobile clinics that could be even shipped around the world to developing countries in need of better access to healthcare or to disaster zones where brick-and-mortar hospitals have been damaged. According to Fernando, hybrid homes have now become a commodity of globalisation as a self-sustainable concept and breaking new ground in the developing Sri Lanka as homes for the rich, houses for the emerging middle class, hotel rooms for travellers, hospital facilities for patients, as disaster shelters, shops, showroom, offices and other facilities. The construction arm of Hybrid Homes, Hybrid Construction Solutions provides an array of advantages against the conventional construction. More information about Hybrid Homes is available on www.hybridhomes.lk.