Guillermo sent me an e-mail today about a prospective construction company, called Entelligant. They are located in San Diego USA. They specialize, as I am learning, in lightweight, low waste, modular building structures that are designed to be strong, and environmentally friendly.

Each facet of the design and building process has been fascinating. It is such a dense and rich subject. The construction of the house itself is now revealing the layers of decisions beneath it.

Prefabricated materials will also take the onus off the local building crews to perform complex building. Labor costs are the majority of construction costs, so it is to be hoped that the prefab pieces will greatly reduce that cost as well as responsibility.

In short, Entelligant aims to provide improved building materials in prefabricated form that reduce costs and the requirement for skilled Field crews.

The videos on their website showed the basic plan for building foundations. It involved 6 steel piers, driven into the soil, and then a steel skeleton laid over it. They appear to save costs and decrease variability by using automated labor in the construction of the prefabricated sections.

They are already building one project in Costa Rica. I do not know their reputation. There is no other mention of them on the web site. Guillermo is recommending that we put them in the mix while considering our construction options and I think they are quite interesting.