Brief
Mighty Buildings is an Oakland, CA based 3D printed home construction company that is transforming home construction with robotics, materials innovation, and a vision for addressing the dual crises of housing availability and climate.
Insight
The construction industry accounts for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with building materials accounting for 11% and building energy use for another 28%. If the industry builds all of the homes needed to meet housing demand using traditional methods and materials, doing so will only feed the climate crisis.
There is an affordable housing crisis in the USA. One in four housing markets are not affordable by historic standards; and this issue doesn’t just affect low-income neighborhoods but also the so-called ‘missing middle’ – middle-income earners who have extremely limited options for home ownership.
Mighty Buildings is an Oakland, CA based 3D printed home construction company that is transforming home construction with robotics, materials innovation, and a vision for addressing the dual crises of housing availability and climate.
I caught up with, Sam Ruben, Chief Sustainability Officer and co-founder, Alexey Dubov, co-founder and Dmitry Starodubtsev, CTO and co-founder and Slava Solonitsyn, the CEO, to learn more about their groundbreaking solution.Afdhel Aziz: Sam, welcome. I’ve been fascinated by the story of Mighty Buildings – let’s start by detailing the Purpose of the company and exactly what it does?
Sam Ruben: The purpose of our company is to unlock productivity in the construction sector while also addressing the climate implications of all that additional construction.
We believe in approaching the housing and climate crises as a both/and proposition (or “dual crises”) given the interplay between the two. The reality is that the climate crisis is impacting the built environment and driving people from their homes — whether it be due to rising sea levels, increasing number and scale of wildfires, increasingly severe storm seasons, catastrophic wind events, and more.
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