In the 1970s our cars were essentially built by hand today every car manufacturer uses robots to offer quality precision and value it was impossible before that same revolution is coming to the construction industry in the United States those of us with extensive experience in the development and building industry that felt a growing frustration with the quality and efficiency of the way we build among other challenges it's particularly hard to find skilled workers in craftsman for the last three years we've been building a new company called blueprint robotics our 200,000 square foot production facility will be fully operational by mid-summer of 2016 we're working to bring the same approach to the u.s. residential construction industry that has been used for decades in high-end automotive and aerospace manufacturing it's a method has been used in residential building in Europe for more than 10 years we guarantee a price and a delivery date for your residential construction project you'll provide the finishing touches after we provide a custom-built closed wall frame that includes doors windows exterior sheathing in wall ruffin of mechanical electrical plumbing fire protection and low voltage systems insulation and interior drywall primed and ready for paint we build it right on to your foundation we can do this faster and cheaper than you do it today and do it with the best materials at the highest level of quality we're able to guarantee our single and multi-family homes because of the precision of the robotics used in our unique process most importantly we've got the price down to a point that's compelling to your business we can take your input which can be anywhere from a simple set of elevations and floor plans all the way to a complete construction ready set of documents or anywhere in between including schematic designs and Didi's will give you a ballpark price from your initial material but we won't give you a contract number until we've taken your drawings converted them into Revit and put them through our pricing process you'll get a definitive bid from us with a set of construction documents that reflect exactly that bid you'll understand what we're delivering to you on a fixed price and fixed timeline we benchmark our delivery date based on the completion of your foundation for single-family homes will deliver and complete our installation within a matter of days of your foundation being ready following execution of a contract will prepare stamped permit drawings for you to use an application for your local building permit our our new production facility in Baltimore has three separate production lines the wall line the roof line and the floor line let's start with the wall on our robots precision requires that we use the highest quality material the robots are benchmarking to a zero line the laser is reading off that and if you don't have a square edge you can't get a good read that's why we use the best materials let's look at one of the first robots in our process the WB z160 beam Center to call it a saw is almost an insult this saw cuts the top and bottom plates of our wall and pre drills for the installation of plumbing venting and electrical Ruffin's that is soon to be installed it's all predetermined by the plans you provide everything in our factory is pre-cut drilled trimmed fastened and routed with cnc precision we use a four by material for our top plate we're twice the thickness of a traditional top plate so we can have a true top line our wall is straighter we start at the framing station this machine produces 40 linear feet of 9 foot wall in about 11 minutes we can build walls up to 12 foot high because robots are executing the nail pattern the pattern is incredibly precise the nail will never be outside of the stud no mrs. hear the wall comes out of the framing station and moves to our drywall bridge station here we're using a robot to put a layer of osb on the frame followed by a layer of drywall the OSB is nailed to the stud while the drywall is glued to the OSB and screwed to the stud the drywall bridge station is also where any openings in the wall doors windows outlets and switches are precisely cut to perfectly square dimensions once all the electrical and plumbing are installed in wall the robots lay the wall back down with the stud up and the drywall down and it's ready for insulation you've got several different options addend denim rock wool fiberglass and dense pack dry cellulose our preferred method is the blown in dense pack dry cellulose because we're operating in the horizontal and we're using a vacuum head we're able to ensure that the cellulose is tight throughout the wall cavity and applied evenly with three pounds per square foot of pressure so that when you actually lift that wall up the cellulose will not fall from the insulating station the wall moves on to the exterior station robots apply the exterior sheathing following the application of the exterior sheathing the door and window openings are cut by our precision robots a pneumatic gantry picks up the window or door places it in the pre framed and cut opening and secures it in place while our carpenters complete the fastening and flashing optimization software manages the production process so that each component is produced and transported in the correct order for final installation and assembly let's move on to the floor and roof lines each of the roof panels are pre-drilled with the appropriate cutouts for recessed lighting sprinkler heads or other fixtures we like open web joist for the quality of the structure we have the ability to deliver a very stout floor our deflection standard is L over 720 once we've applied subflooring and receiving the final drywall layer is applied and now the roof and floors are finished they are shrink wrapped and ready to go we ship on a standard 53-foot flatbed or standard drop deck that's an over-the-road traditional truck with no special permits required one or two days before our installation and crew arrives will stage the site we bring our own crane and our own forklift when our team leaves will have the drywall and are ready to paint condition you finish the facade in the roofing material with blueprint robotics you don't need to make a deposit when placing an order our terms are net 30 days after completion of our installation there's an old saying and building price schedule quality pick any two a blueprint robotics we figured out how to let you have all three let's work together the way you build may never be the same blueprint robotics a better way to build
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