Gadgetory

year after year storm after storm these were the homes that were left standing and people said if I'm gonna build in a hurricane zone this is what I want our homes are exceptionally strong because we use materials that are very high quality they're often designed for high winds owns and no high quality material you can't just go to the store and buy our Homer's panelized so we're pre manufacturing sections of it in a factory and then shipping it out to you on the job site around design I've actually have self-supporting root system so it doesn't have any interior load-bearing walls which means that the inside can be laid out basically any way that you want last part of the roof most of the ceiling but I'm still alive still here kicking I took pictures of this place in the whole neighborhood the day before we were all out here all the neighbors they just had their new roofs installed from the hailstorm everybody was cleaning up we were getting ready for the weekend of fun and then Harvey sort was like okay well we're gonna leave because most of those people are vacation people you know they don't live here full-time not like a hurricane Harvey barreling into the Texas coastline storm surges are predicted to reach up to 12 V city of Rockport Texas is right in Harvey's path and he is getting hit hard I felt like I this is a nuclear war had happened here and my neighbor's atom bombed it was it was heart and gut wrenching to see the damage that that a lot of people have suffered through and and their took their whole life is forever changed by this climate change is something that is hard to to not think about when you see hurricane after hurricane after hurricane the wildfires that have just hit California it really makes you think about if I'm gonna build a home you know what is it going to be like 20 years from now 50 years from now a hundred years from now I'm not just designing for today but I'm designing for generations into the future and what's it gonna take to make sure that we resist those things I'm in a lot that was you know half a block from the water we thought we really need something that is hurricane resistant and this round house concept they can't bill as hurricane proof but when you look through the gallery pictures there sure are a lot of pictures as ours is now of the Delta house standing tall well everything around it is shattered I think resilience like passive survivability is the concept of you know building a home that can withstand all kinds of weather extremes is something that we have been really good at or I want us to keep improving in that direction obviously this round shape makes sense in a Highland environment and we're able to get a lot less pressure building up on that home just because of that design but how do we go above and beyond that beyond just the shape how do we engineer that to be even stronger and so you see this what we call radial engineering where it's like spokes on a wheel and the entire home is like this this wheel that it works together so the entire system is set up to resist those high winds there really is nothing about what we do that is rocket science it is a simple concept and we have really perfected it over the last 50 years in the way that everything fits together and works together and to me what's really special about the deltek is there's this combination of you know science and sort of you know high-tech manufacturing but then it blends so well with you know what I call the old-world craftsmanship we're building this home it's out of wood it's not like it's some new high-tech material but the way that it performs is above and beyond really what any other would home to do