Building A Better Way
- building a better way -
— WHAT WE DO —
We are scientists who are also builders. Our focus is on building custom homes that are healthier for our clients and their families. We are also known as Northern California’s authority on how to design and build a Passive House. While we do not design the homes we build, we collaborate with the best architects in San Francisco, the Bay Area and Santa Cruz County to help you create the home you’ve always envisioned living and spending time in. We build new custom homes, additions, and large-scale remodels involving at least 1000 sq ft. of an existing home. Through a complete and rigorous analysis of your project, we will offer you alternatives to the traditional or standard building materials and details to decrease costs and increase your home’s durability and efficiency while eliminating the use of toxic and off-gassing materials, ensuring your new home is healthier for you and your family.
We partner with architects who design our projects; however, Earth Bound Homes is often the first point of contact for prospective clients. After our first meeting with you, we will recommend one or two architects whom we believe may be the ideal fit, depending upon the style of the architecture, project scope, budget, the size of the home, and, most importantly, the personality of you, the homeowner. This collaborative group of the homeowner, architect, and our team at Earth Bound Homes brings together a diverse set of beliefs and experiences, giving you the advantage of differing points of view throughout the design and construction process. This, along with our intelligently designed Pre-Construction Process, allows you to realize the most significant cost savings from the start of design development, allowing for a fully transparent process and pricing.
We thoroughly plan the project before construction begins and can dramatically reduce budget overruns and change orders, resulting in a less stressful experience and a superior home built faster with significantly less uncertainty. At Earth Bound Homes, we have a shared philosophy with each home we build: to provide uncompromising attention to detail, communication, unwavering client service, and stunning results.
— The Earth Bound Homes Building Process —
Proper Planning during
Pre-Construction Services (PCS)
We understand that building a custom home or large-scale remodeling project can be exciting, but at times, stressful, complicated, and disruptive. our goal is to eliminate confusion by listening to your questions, educating, and helping you understand any aspect of the construction process that is unfamiliar.
Our proprietary Pre-Construction Services Process reduces uncertainty and unpredictability as you embark on your custom home or major remodel journey. Our goal is to help you understand the scope of your project, shape it early on in its development with value engineering, prioritize what you want and need in a home, and ensure the initial project budget matches your desired investment. The Pre-Construction Services Process ensures critical milestones are in place before you even begin to build your custom home or remodel. We identify all the specifications, selections, and pricing for your project, ensuring the build phase, managed by our experienced project managers, is efficient and cost-effective.
During our Pre-Construction Services Process, we extensively evaluate all aspects of your custom home or remodeling project — from site and soil conditions to your new home’s building envelop, electrical to HVAC, energy-efficient, and sustainable building material options, windows and doors, to final finish choices. We produce complete and detailed specifications, comprehensive construction documents, and fully transparent project pricing. What does this mean for you? No unwanted surprises and the realization that you will never have to worry about how much everything will cost because you have access to every bid, proposal, and estimate before we start building or remodeling your home. With our team of trusted construction experts assembled, we may also enlist the support of additional industry professionals (lighting and interiors designers, structural engineers, landscape architects) and subject matter experts (suppliers and subcontractors), as needed. During this highly collaborative and iterative process, our role is to align a core team of construction experts and ensure we are all working towards a common goal - building your home, within your budget, as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Less Stress in COnstruction
Because most of the hard work of designing and specifying the details for your new home is completed during our Pre-Construction Services Process, you can now enjoy the next phase; watching your ideas and dreams for your new home or remodel become a reality. Because we specialize in complex, difficult to build, new custom homes, and large-scale home remodels, and each of our experienced project managers has successfully managed their own home building company before joining Earth Bound Homes, you will be secure in the knowledge that you are working with the best in the home building business. Through continuous communication during weekly or bi-weekly meetings, client email briefs that include photos and progress updates and utilizing our custom project management software, you will always know what is happening on your home from the day we break ground until we hand you your keys to your new front door.
