An Emergent Home is a home that breaks free from "straight, square, and plumb" constraints. They have stunning natural beauty. Instead of shapes crafted by humans, they draw inspiration from the beautiful forms found in nature. Additionally, our homes leverage automation to build more quickly and accurately. Moreover, they are inherently more fire-resistant, energy-efficient, and longer-lasting than stick-built homes.

Our primary focus is to meet needs within the disaster recovery, workforce, affordable, and homelessness recovery housing. However, we also build custom homes and want to help reduce the nationwide housing crisis.

Yes. We have collaborated with the City of Redding to print host homes within local parks for a qualified family to receive subsidized housing in exchange for taking on specific duties within the park. This will create a greater sense of security in the area by having an on-site presence and benefiting the host family. While our first projects are residential, we will be doing more commercial construction in the future.

We are also working to develop the world’s first 3D-printed church. The design for the church is acoustically revolutionary and will help these types of organizations and others financially by providing a more cost-effective solution to building needs.

Yes, we are committed to collaborating with other communities to see that they, too, can recover from natural disasters and the current housing crisis. Emergent owner, Don Ajamian, has had the opportunity to present this technology to leadership from 37 other counties within the state of California.

Additionally, we have partnered with the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA!) to help identify labor teams within other communities across the state and nation, creating jobs and fulfilling projects by training locals with our equipment.

There is a nationwide housing crisis, with a need for more than 3.8 million homes at this posting. Our builds can more efficiently aid in disaster recovery efforts for families in need, cutting the delivery time for a home by close to 30%. Additionally, because we utilize concrete, we can provide these families with more disaster-resilient homes. Lastly, Emergent Homes allow for nearly infinite design opportunities. 

Because our homes are made of concrete, they are fire-resistant. Certain parts of California are Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas, which are especially prone to wildfires. Our goal is to rebuild these areas. Because of this, we have decided that, as a company, regardless of where we build, all our homes will meet the specific standards for building that a WUI home necessitates.

Yes. Amid the many recent California wildfires, finding adequate and affordable insurance for families has been a challenge. Although some forms of insurance are offered by the government covering fires and floods, this option is often unaffordable. Site-specific factors also make obtaining private insurance unaffordable. Because of their fire resistance, our concrete homes have been well-received in the private insurance market. We hope that, as a result, other entities will adopt similarly sufficient coverage at a lower cost.

Yes, many things can be customized in an Emergent Home. No, not everything in your home must be concrete. We can still include many of the same inviting features found in a traditionally built home. Stuck on stucco? So are we. Can’t get enough wood paneling? You got it. If there are certain design aspects that you would like included in your home, those can likely become a reality through the design process. However, certain additions may impact your home’s compliance with Wildland Urban Interface and other regulations.

There are many "peel and stick" picture-hanging products on the market. Most of these will work fine for pictures. If it's something heavier, like a flat-screen TV, concrete screws can be installed into the wall.

Every wall has two printed layers or “faces" and an air gap in the middle. The air gap is used for plumbing, electrical infrastructure, and insulation at the exterior walls.

Even with the implementation of this new technology, printing a home is still a construction project. Nevertheless, we estimate a 25% time savings on the building schedule and a 29% savings in energy efficiencies, such as decreased heating and electrical bills. There will be opportunities to increase these savings as we expand from primarily printing walls to printing foundations and implementing other construction technologies. We are also happy to announce that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have recently approved our homes for conventional mortgages and building, further reducing costs to homeowners.

The total construction cost for an Emergent Home depends on many variables: geographic area, selected finishes, overall design, etc. Currently, we are averaging about the same cost per square foot as a similarly finished home using conventional construction.

This will vary based on the design and size of the home. It is possible to save several weeks to several months using this building technique. One primary source of time savings is that the printed walls can be used for the structure, exterior, and interior finish. Depending on the project's design, much time can be saved since there may be a reduced need to add finishes to the printed wall.