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The fire-resistant home is coming to California

The fire-resistant home is coming to California, and here’s what it looks like

By Amy Graff, SFGATE – July 24th, 2019 

It was a miracle.

The Santa Rosa family home of Howard Booster survived the raging flame front that devoured nearly his entire neighborhood at about 4 a.m. on October 9, 2017, amid the Tubbs Fire, among the deadliest and most devastating infernos in California history.

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Streamline modern structure of steel helps family recover from loss in North Bay fires

June, 2019 — Eichler Network

A butterfly-roofed modern home is rising from the scorched earth of the North Bay fires, bolstered by an innovative, steel-framed design that promises maximum energy efficiency.

“There’s so many people that look at this house and say, ‘Man, that looks like it was by Eichler,'” admits architect Brendan Kelly of his design for the home being built just west of Santa Rosa. “I say, ‘Man, Eichler wasn’t an architect, that was Anshen and Allen!'”

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Interview: BONE Structure Homes Bring New Rebuild Strategy To Sonoma County

May 10, 2019 — KSRO radio

Matt Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Pro.com and Marc Bovet, Co-Founder and CEO of BONE Structure joined The Drive with Steve Jaxon Friday to talk about their new model of home construction and involvement in the rebuild of Santa Rosa neighborhoods and their open house this weekend in Sonoma County.

Listen to the interview here!

Solar House Replacing Santa Rosa Home Destroyed by Tubbs Fire

May 11, 2019 — NBC

A Santa Rosa construction company is holding an open house Saturday and Sunday to showcase a net-zero energy consumption, 100 percent solar house that is replacing a Santa Rosa family’s home destroyed by the Tubbs Fire in October 2017.

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Has California Given up on the American Dream?

Buying a home in California is a dream increasingly out of reach for many residents. Only about half of the state’s residents currently own their own homes.

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How Building in California is Different

Everyone knows California is a little different than the rest of the United States. Some people take great inspiration from that fact, and others fear it.

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BONE Structure breaks ground in Los Angeles

Press Release

BONE Structure® breaks ground on first project in Los Angeles with award winning Architect Dan Brunn and Dwell.

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Luxurious net-zero Stanford home features an earthquake-resistant steel frame

July 21, 2016, Inhabitat

When Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson wanted an energy-efficient home that he could customize to his liking, he set his sights on the Quebec-based company BONE Structure.

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How fab can prefab be?

June 24, 2016, Palo Alto Online

Weekend tours to expose bare-bones construction of net-zero home

Most house tours offer an opportunity to check out picture-perfect interior designs and architecture.

At this weekend’s tours of California’s first BONE Structure prefab home on the Stanford University campus, visitors will be exposed to anything but the latest interior finishes and are advised to wear closed shoes: They will be touring the construction zone of a steel-beamed prefab house shipped down from Canada — its bones still exposed as design company BONE Structure finishes its assembly.

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Stanford Professor’s New Zero-Net Energy Home Sets the Standard for Green Living

June 23, 2016, EcoWatch

Mark Z. Jacobson’s new digs is the perfect home for the prominent renewable energy advocate.

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