WOODENHOUSE

Woodenhouse builds high-performance homes that are affordable, carbon-negative, and endlessly variable. We use computer-aided design and manufacturing to build with greater precision, higher quality, and much less time, dramatically reducing the cost of construction.

We are predictable, reliable, and incredibly fast.

We make prefabricated floor, wall, and roof panels in a well-equipped shop, lift them into place with a crane, and finish them on site. We do everything ourselves under one roof, eliminating cost overruns due to weather and subcontractor delays. It takes one person one day to install the helical pile foundation in any weather. We can make all the panels for a single-family home in a day. We deliver the panels to the site the next day, crane them into place, and join them together, and by the end of that day, the house is weatherproof, airtight, and running on its own solar power. After just three weeks on the job, the house is finished inside and out and ready for occupation.

We can transform construction from carbon pollution to carbon sequestration.

We avoid concrete and plastic foams, where most of the carbon emissions are, and build instead out of products made from trees that spend their lives turning atmospheric carbon dioxide into wood. And we include solar roofing that generates more power than is needed to run the super-insulated, airtight house. The result is a carbon-negative home with a net positive impact on the environment.

We can solve the housing crisis.

Our country has a shortage of housing, and the construction workforce is shrinking, so we need to figure out how to build a lot more with fewer people. And yet homebuilding is the only industrial sector that has stagnated or even declined in efficiency since the 1950s. Woodenhouse brings together best practices from scores of similar operations in Europe and the United States to modernize the way housing is built. The combination of skilled workers and advanced computer-driven machinery allows us to build about four times as much with the same workforce.

We bring variety and individuality to houses for everyone.

Computer-aided design and manufacturing allows us to vary the architecture without undermining the efficiency, affordability, or profitability of our operation. It’s easy for us to customize. We can build 260 houses a year, no two alike, in about one-quarter of the labor hours used in typical production housing. The point of bringing modern manufacturing to homebuilding isn’t to lower cost through uniformity, it’s to make variety affordable.

Built in Boulder.

Custom prefab.

Our mission is to demonstrate how we can build our way out of the housing crisis despite a shrinking workforce and prove that affordable housing can be high-performance, carbon-negative, and endlessly varied.