Off-Site Start-Up Entekra Constructs Concept Home of the Future for KB Home

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- California start-up Entekra leveraged its Fully Integrated Off-Site Solution^TM ? or FIOSS^TM ? to fabricate KB Home's prototype smart home of the future, unveiled to the home building industry during this week's International Builders Show in Las Vegas.

The 3,200-square-foot concept home, known as KB Home ProjeKt, is a research and development lab that showcases a new set of future standards for home building. It incorporates a full range of innovations ? from smart monitoring systems to technologically advanced construction methods and materials ? to address sustainability and wellness needs for residents of single-family homes.

Entekra precision manufactured critical components of the KB Home ProjeKt shell in its Northern California factory and then delivered them to the site in the master planned community of Inspirada near Las Vegas, where the house's frame was completely assembled in less than a week.

"While FIOSS by Entekra was utilize to construct KB Home ProjeKt to provide a forward look at home building, our off-site system is already the industry standard for building high-quality wood-framed homes around the world," said Entekra's Chief Executive Gerard McCaughey. 

Relatively new to the U.S. market, FIOSS has been used for the more than a half-century to build homes in Europe and Asia and has a proven track record for reducing overall build time by as much as 33 percent, while also reducing skilled labor needs by more than 40 percent ? a key consideration given the labor shortage that has plagued U.S. builders in recent years.

Entekra was selected as the off-site solution provider for this project because its system offers builders an unmatched degree of flexibility from both design and materials perspectives.

About Entekra

Entekra (entekra.com) was founded in late 2016 to transform the way houses are built in America with its Fully Integrated Off-Site Solution^TM (FIOSS^TM). Based in Ripon, Calif., the off-site construction company streamlines the process by leveraging the integration and application of engineering, technology and modern methods of construction to consolidate tasks that are normally divided among architects, engineers, building materials suppliers and contractors. Entekra's management team is comprised of key executives from Ireland's Century Homes, who grew that company from a start-up operation of four employees into Europe's largest provider of FIOSS homes.

SOURCE Entekra