Diamond Age

Diamond Age completed its 1st house installation with our integrated light gauge steel wall panels last week. A team of 6 completed the install in 1-day and the subsequent roof truss install was completed in 1.5 hours. The power of offsite manufacturing leveraging automation and robotics is changing the way we build homes! Well done team – your expertise and commitment are showing up in an amazing customer experience! Reach out if you're interested in learning more! #diamondage #robotics #automation #industry4.0 #homebuilding #manufacturing #offsiteconstruction #panelization #framing #MEP #insulation

At Diamond Age, we leverage robotics to automate the construction of buildings.   Our latest automated product offering is a panelized light gauge steel wall system for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. We are currently in the commissioning stage of the newest manufacturing line.   These panelized wall systems are initially comprised of a fastened steel frame assembly with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing rough-ins, structural strapping, and insulation.   Solving the constraints in the construction industry is at the heart of what we do. Diamond Age helps solve the lack of skilled labor problem by supplementing the shortfall with robotics.   Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in learning more.    https://lnkd.in/grEbUMDx

Thx Robert Dietz for highlighting this important conundrum - hopefully the Fed is listening: "With more than half of the overall gains for consumer inflation due to shelter over the last year, increasing attainable housing supply is a key anti-inflationary strategy, one that is complicated by higher short-term rates, which increase builder financing costs and hinder home construction activity." [ https://lnkd.in/ggs4sJXC ]

Thank you John Burns for illustrating that the problem is supply and demand - your data is always insightful. https://lnkd.in/gKc5VR5y

A couple of recent news articles last week that shore up the argument that lowering rates would actually help the Fed achieve their inflation target… 1) DR Horton CEO: “says housing inventory would have to 'significantly' jump before it'd impact their ability to sell” [ https://lnkd.in/gAwPZgJB ] – AKA only upper tier income can afford to buy a home currently. 2) Bloomberg: Rents Are the Fed’s ‘Biggest Stumbling Block’ in Taming US Inflation – “The difference seems to be all about supply.” [ https://lnkd.in/guCtbvUQ ] Anyone know Jerome Powell’s email – he needs to know that it’s a supply and demand problem that interest rate policy is exacerbating. Lower rates, make it easier to build more homes and apartments, prices come down – everyone wins, and the housing metric falls into line for his inflation calculus.

Our portable, modular, upgradeable Factory-In-The-Field is called a M.A.C.E.    Which stands for:    MOBILE  AUTOMATED  CONSTRUCTION  ENGINE    It amplifies human will, empowering workers to build climate-resilient structures faster than ever before.    It can build any size structure that fits inside its construction envelope.   It's supply chain agnostic.   And it's how we can build AT SCALE.   Diamond Age. We bring the assembly line to the property line.

We need 7 million new homes to solve the housing crisis, but we lack the workforce to build them.    The bottleneck isn’t just a labor shortage — construction itself is stuck in the past.    Diamond Age solves both—AT SCALE.    Advances in robotics and automation are already transforming construction, making it possible for even a limited number of workers to greatly increase productivity.    Let's build a brighter future together.    #WorkerShortage #WorkforceDevelopment #HousingCrisis 

Bringing the dream of sustainable living to life at Mountain View Estates in Casa Grande, AZ, one energy-efficient home at a time.    Diamond Age Homes are available right now via Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE:CCS): (https://lnkd.in/gs4tdeD7) 

What's our co-founder Russell Varone's Wildest Prediction for the future?   “Robots will build everything: our clothes, our food... but they will start by constructing our homes.”   Thank you Tom Goodwin for having Russell on your podcast!

Economist Noah Smith defending science fiction. Why? Because authors like Alex Blechman and Charles Stross have pointed out that Silicon Valley doesn’t always take heed of cautionary/dystopian fiction...   And yet some startups seem to base their tech on the bleakest Black Mirror episodes.   We’re with Noah Smith on this one, because there are many examples of good technologies inspired by sci-fi.   Star Trek Tricorder -> iPhone Star Trek Replicator -> 3D Printing   And of course, the book that inspired our name: Neil Stephenson's Diamond Age…and his Matter Compilers.   Our portable, modular, upgradeable Factory-In-The-Field is called a M.A.C.E.   Which stands for:   MOBILE AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION ENGINE   It amplifies human will, allowing the same number of workers to build climate-resilient structures faster and more safely than ever before.   It can build anything that fits inside its construction envelope.   It is supply chain agnostic.   And it’s just one example of how science fiction becomes science fact, for the good of all humankind.   People are already living in our homes in AZ. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/etkRKZjg