Build a Burlingame custom home designed for the Peninsula's seismic realities, hillside sites, and growing wildfire exposure. Earth'smart powered by tect brings architecture, engineering, construction coordination, and manufacturer input together early, creating resilient 100+ year homes that perform across structure, systems, and envelope while elevating safety, comfort, durability, and long-term value.
Integrated custom home services for resilient, high-performance homes built for Burlingame and Peninsula conditions.
Earth'smart powered by tect coordinates architecture, engineering, construction strategy, permitting, and manufacturer input through one aligned team, giving homeowners a clearer path from early concept decisions through construction execution.
Homes are designed with fire-resistive walls, Class A roofing, ember-resistant vents, non-combustible assemblies, and defensible-space coordination for WUI and hillside exposure across the Peninsula.
High-performance custom homes combine elevated design with efficient envelopes, all-electric mechanical systems, solar and battery integration, low-maintenance materials, and water-conscious strategies for long-term ownership value.
Fresh filtered air, MERV-13+ filtration, ERV or HRV ventilation, smart controls, low-VOC materials, water-quality treatment, and integrated monitoring support healthier indoor environments year-round.
Earth'smart powered by tect designs homes to perform across fire, earthquake, flood, weather, and lifecycle demands, using integrated structural, envelope, energy, water, and monitoring systems from the start.
Through the TectApp community of 70+ building product manufacturers, material and system decisions are informed early by the companies behind the home's structure, envelope, and equipment.
Earth'smart powered by tect begins by clarifying your design ambitions, budget range, resilience priorities, and site conditions. For Burlingame Hills and nearby Peninsula properties, this includes slope, access, vegetation, seismic exposure, and WUI-related risk considerations.
Earth'smart powered by tect brings commercial-grade coordination to high-performance residential construction.
One coordinated approach reduces friction from concept through construction for complex Burlingame custom homes.
Direct product-maker input helps systems get understood, integrated, and delivered correctly early.
Homes are engineered for Peninsula seismic demands, wildfire exposure, comfort, and long service life.
Documentation supports risk conversations with brokers and underwriters in California's changing insurance market.
Leadership grounded in resilient, integrated home delivery.
AIA — Founder, Architect and Manufacturer Advisor
Bob Habian, AIA, brings a rare cross-sided perspective to the building industry: he has been a licensed architect specifying products, a building product manufacturer owner selling them, and an advisor to more than 300 manufacturers working to reach architects and project teams more effectively. That combination sits behind everything tect does. On the owner side, Bob leads Tect's Earth'smart™ practice delivering 100+ year homes engineered to perform across structure, systems and envelope for homeowners across Northern, Central and Southern California — homes built to withstand fire, flood and earthquake exposure while minimizing long-term maintenance cost. On the manufacturer side, Bob leads the tect network of nearly 70 participating building product manufacturers and the Manufacturer Resource Hub, helping manufacturer CEOs, sales and marketing leaders, technical leadership and product representatives understand how architects actually choose products, contribute earlier in design, build genuine product-category expertise, form complementary alliances, and make credible human expertise discoverable in search and AI. His consistent argument to manufacturers is that project teams do not need another channel that exposes products — they need trustworthy expertise available at the moment a decision is forming. Bob draws on AIA specification research, anonymized patterns from work across hundreds of manufacturers, and direct experience on both sides of the specification conversation.
Earth'smart powered by tect integrates architecture, engineering, construction coordination, permit strategy, and manufacturer input earlier than a conventional builder-led process. Instead of choosing systems late, earth'smart powered by tect uses the TectApp community of 70+ manufacturers to inform structure, envelope, roofing, mechanical, fire-resilience, water, energy, and smart-home decisions from the beginning.
Talk with earth'smart powered by tect about performance, risk, and delivery options.
Earth'smart powered by tect supports high-performance custom home projects across Peninsula, Coastside, and select California resilience markets.
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Share your property location and project goals with earth'smart powered by tect.
Licensed architectural leadership guides resilient home delivery.
70+ product manufacturers inform early system decisions.
Risk-focused documentation supports broker and underwriter review.
Tell earth'smart powered by tect about your site, goals, timeline, and resilience priorities. The team will help clarify the right delivery path, early system decisions, and next steps for your custom home.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at (310) 913-5000. You can also send us a quick email at bob@tect.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at (310) 913-5000. You can also send us a quick email at bob@tect.com.