Ebony Hall (00:00)
Today we are mocking up one of the cottages for the senior cottages.

It's important to do that on the front end so we can work out all the conflicts with our mechanicals, electrical, plumbing, all those kind of things.

So we pre-built some paneled walls that are going to be used ⁓ to do the prototype and then we have a stack of basically fake exterior panels we're going to put around the interior walls so we can map out where the electrical and other mechanical systems go.

just to make sure we have everything dialed in before we take it to site.

Ebony Hall (00:37)
A typical practice would involve what we call mock-ups. And mock-ups are where you build sections of the project. You build a detail that you're trying to understand how materials come together or how roof flashing works. But it's specific to a detail.

This type of full-scale mock-up is unique in my experience, really kind of building in totality a unit, our two bedroom, one bath unit.

when you draw it, ⁓ it looks one way when it actually gets built it can sometimes reveal some things that you hadn't considered

It has enlightened me ⁓ just in this one hour of walking through it to see not only how the walls come together, how the spaces feel, but to think through details like trim and door swings and where outlets and switches are. think it just gives you a better appreciation for how this piece of space will be used, how it will feel, how it

Ebony Hall (01:35)
So what's really important here is we work out all the bugs here. We want to make sure that we have a really efficient delivery system so that when we get on site it's super easy to go together

Ebony Hall (01:45)
if we can build it in the warehouse ⁓

down at waist level where someone can kind of have access to it. Not only is it safer, not only can they probably do it a little bit quicker, not only does it allow us to assemble it better in the field, but that efficiency results in better quality.

We're really being conscious about everything matters. Every dimension matters. Every material and how it comes together matters.

not for us just as kind the providers of this, but really for those folks that will be living in these units long term,

Because if we frame a wall poorly, whether it's here in the warehouse or in the field, ⁓ someone's going to live with that decision long

Ebony Hall (02:27)
Right now this is set up to be able to be ADA and I think what it's going to require us to do is this has got to shift that way and that's got to shift that way.

Ebony Hall (02:38)
we had three guys

guys

in here framing it took them about two and a half hours to frame the interior walls for one unit.

Our goal is to get that down to two hours so we're framing four houses per day ⁓ inside the factory before we take it out to site

Ebony Hall (02:50)
building 18 of these ⁓ units in different variations. They're going to be unique in their own regard, but we can go through lot of ⁓ ideation and thought exploration.

through these mock-ups,

Ebony Hall (03:01)
so we'll have dried-in houses that's exterior walls, roof panels, interior wall setup and we'll be doing our interior work in about six weeks from when we start work. And that's incredible compared to stick-built right? That's pretty remarkable yes.