Radically rethinking the way we build housing
Meeting the 4.9 million-unit housing shortage
OPAL Build is a B2B construction start-up creating the next generation of sustainable, cost-competitive, mass timber housing to meet the American housing shortage. Our platform of services includes offsite manufacturing of structural panels and bathroom pods, mass timber engineering services, and supply chain procurement and integration.
Unlocking affordability through sustainability
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The built environment constitutes nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Our goal is to decarbonize building construction through high performance all-wood systems, reducing both embodied and operational carbon emissions with net zero in reach on every project.
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Through repeatable building designs, mass timber engineering, and strategic manufacturing, we solve the sustainable building material cost premium by helping supply chains run efficiently.
While the building materials needed to decrease the carbon footprint of the built environment are immediately available, they face prohibitive cost premiums - as much as 25-50% structure cost - against traditional building material methodologies. Our platform allows us to consistently place efficient, large volume order sizes with manufacturers, radically reducing waste and transportation emissions. The result flattens our supplier's manufacturing processes ensuring price efficiency, which we pass onto our clients.
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3D BIM modeling enables seamless communication across procurement, manufacturing, and construction of panelized building shells and high-value volumetric modular building elements. Together with local developer partners, our goal is to deliver finished housing in 30 days after the arrival of panels onsite.
Our system was developed in recognition that, while the US manufacturing sector has increased productivity 10 – 15 times since the 1950s, construction productivity has stagnated over the past 80 years. Our approach streamlines traditional construction, increasing predictability in pricing and timelines for projects from single family to multifamily offerings.
Bringing together a team with decades of experience in the design, engineering and construction industry, our streamlined system delivers value-based buildings at scale.
Housing Solutions for Developers
Choose from our predesigned library of replicable building systems, ranging from single family to multifamily offerings.
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Our Design and Engineering Team has created a Design Library of Replicable Building Systems (RBS) spanning from single-family to multifamily offerings. Our system makes the design process more efficient by reducing total design time through the use of repeatable design components, therefore reducing design costs by 10%. OPAL Build’s RBS includes building shell, selected interior finishes, and bathroom and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) pods.
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OPAL Build’s precision-fabrication process links our Design Library with our supplier's production processes, and our Network Partner production lines where we utilize 3D detailed computer design models to assemble CNC-cut full-scale building elements. This supply chain integration allows us to procure and assemble materials across a range of project types quickly and cost-effectively.
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Our Design Library prioritizes ease of assembly and buildability. This allows us to partner with local developers to stand up market-adjacent, low-cost assembly plants. Our automated process centralizes trades while increasing workplace safety and driving labor efficiency to deliver market rate, turnkey housing in 30 days after onsite panel delivery.
Mass Timber Services
Activating mass timber on your project requires a unique approach. OPAL Build helps developers and design teams unlock the efficiencies of mass timber at any stage in the project lifecycle. We cater our structural engineering, procurement, and installation services to the specific needs of your build to make mass timber a predictable, cost effective, and streamlined aspect of your project.
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As a partner in the early stages of your design, we provide critical design team support, early pricing and supplier selection, conceptual structural engineering and use a buildability lens to advise on concept drawings through 3D BIM design.
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We mobilize our 3D modeling capabilities to assist your design team in tackling mass timber structural engineering, build-ability and detailing, identifying cost saving opportunities through efficient layouts and material use reduction.
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Our 3D modeled structural and connection systems dovetail with manufacturer’s CAD/CAM programs, expediting shop drawings and pricing to ensure predictability in lead times and pricing.
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We partner with OPAL Architecture, experts in Operational and Life Cycle Assessments of mass timber structures, to provide add-on operational and LCA modeling services for your project.