Digital fabrication is simply the best way to build. It is already standard practice in the aerospace, automotive, and consumer electronic industries, and why not? Fabrication is faster, better and cost-competitive.

It maximizes economy of scale with maximum scalability and can be used to build almost any product. With digital fabrication, the quality and predictability of production is built into the process itself.

The building industry today faces many challenges: strict government regulation, soaring energy costs, tight money, and high consumer demand for net zero energy buildings. Resistance to change in any industry is common and fabrication in the U.S. is new to many seasoned professionals. Yet, its impact on building quality and efficiency has already been demonstrated. It is already used in the majority of wood-framed buildings constructed to meet rigorous Passive House and Swiss Minergie performance standards. In fact, the world’s most architecturally compelling, high-performance, wood-framed buildings use digital fabrications as the manufacturing process of choice.

IDEAbuilder combines state-of-the-art digital fabrication with superior craftsmanship to deliver great design realization with unprecedented speed, accuracy, and quality. The building systems we use have been developed and refined over many decades in the creation of tens of thousands of buildings.

Digital fabrication makes complex design simple to build. More importantly, it is a green building process leading to a sustainable future for the planet we call home.