S.I.M.M.
Holzraum System creates a Single Integrated Manufacturing Model combining structural, building fabric, energy performance, manufacturing and mechanical systems perspectives and aligns them with the project stakeholders' goals.
Holzraum System works with architects, engineers, builders and developers and connects them with our manufacturing processes and efficiencies in order to provide building envelope analysis and consulting as needed, resulting in a complete integration of project design intent, passive house principals and cost-effective offsite manufacturing. Holzraum System keeps the envelope design and planning process connected - always maintaining alignment between client, engineering and manufacturing perspectives. As we create a precise and comprehensive single 3D model of your structure, we apply our building science training and Wufi static and dynamic software tools. This eliminates thermal bridging, achieves superb air-tightness, and delivers highly vapor-open moisture profiles in our exterior wall and roof assemblies: eliminating risks of mold conditions and assembly decay and assuring the safest, healthiest indoor air quality possible.
When the S.I.M.M. is complete, a detailed set of geometry drawings is prepared and reviewed by the project's structural engineer, architect and builder to ensure the whole team agrees with design intent and fabrication strategies. Once the drawings have been approved for fabrication, Holzraum System creates machine files and factory instructions from the S.I.M.M. to ensure that every aligned perspective is manifest in the delivered panels and loose parts.
Holzraum System® marries high-performance wooden building envelope design and translation for off-site manufacturing with interpretation and advocacy for designers, developers, owners, and manufacturers.
Carbon Smart By Design
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Holzraum System's low carbon, high performance envelopes are manufactured in Blueprint Robotic's climate-controlled facility by their highly skilled workforce and state-of-the-art robotic technology. Holzraum System translates custom building designs into ready to fabricate production packages - combining factory efficiency standards with passive house strategies and materials. Blueprint Robotics manufactures every assembly with incredible precision including all insulated exterior wall + window panels, interior wall panels, structural posts and beams, floor panels, and roof panels - resulting in a fully integrated and extremely high quality customized building system.
Pre-manufacturing of fully custom assemblies ensures very high quality of materials, joinery, and sealing. It reduces waste stream volume and mitigates weather and scheduling risks by shortening on-site build times. We partner with Blueprint Robotics Inc. to manufacture our Vapor-Open Holzraum System structural-thermal envelopes. For more information visit www.blueprint-robotics.com
ON-SITE INSTALLATION
Holzraum System partners with highly skilled framing and timber framing professionals who have at least a decade of experience raising panelized and component-based buildings and who understand the precision, high quality materials and coordinated effort that has already been applied to every panel before they ever reach the site.
Extremely close attention to every structural perspective as well as all air and water control layer details is paid by both the designers creating the installation drawings and the installers assembling all of the sub-assemblies that comprise the complete building core and shell.
Upon completed installation of all wall, floor and roof panels, loose structural members, final insulation, and air sealing details, a pre-MEP penetration blower door test is performed to verify a passive house level of airtightness is being handed off to the builder responsible for completing the rest of the build.
