Turnkey Delivery
A fully aligned architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturer, and permit strategy team guides the project from early concept through construction with decisions made early, clearly, and collaboratively.
Earth'smart powered by tect brings architecture, engineering, construction coordination, manufacturer expertise, and permit strategy into one aligned system for high-performance homes. Designed for homeowners across Northern and Southern California rebuilding in wildfire-prone WUI conditions, our integrated approach helps critical decisions happen early, reducing friction while improving resilience, safety, durability, comfort, and long-term value.
A coordinated path from concept through construction for safer, stronger, longer-lasting homes.
A fully aligned architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturer, and permit strategy team guides the project from early concept through construction with decisions made early, clearly, and collaboratively.
Homes are designed around non-combustible assemblies, fire-resistive exterior wall systems, long-life roofing, and integrated envelope strategies that support durability in high-risk wildfire areas.
Earth'smart powered by tect helps homeowners materially reduce risk by coordinating resilient assemblies, suppression planning, on-site water supply, and system performance considerations relevant to today's insurance environment.
We begin by clarifying your rebuilding goals, budget range, site conditions, and exposure to wildfire, flood, or earthquake risk. For Northern and Southern California and WUI properties, early risk understanding shapes smarter decisions from day one.
Earth'smart powered by tect brings advanced coordination and resilient building expertise to homeowners facing complex rebuild decisions.
One coordinated team connects design, engineering, construction, permitting, and manufacturers from the start.
Built for homeowners across Northern and Southern California facing wildfire exposure and evolving insurance realities.
TectApp connects projects with 70+ product manufacturers before critical system decisions are made.
Homes are engineered for fire, flood, earthquake, comfort, durability, and lower lifecycle costs.
Architect-led guidance for resilient, coordinated 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.
Integrated design-build is a delivery model where architecture, engineering, construction planning, product expertise, and permitting strategy are coordinated as one system from the beginning. Instead of handing work from one disconnected party to another, the team makes critical decisions early. For resilient homes, this helps align structure, envelope, mechanical systems, fire resistance, and long-term performance.
Speak with earth'smart powered by tect about your resilient home rebuild.
Earth'smart powered by tect supports homeowners rebuilding resilient, high-performance homes in Northern and Southern California.
Northern & Southern California
Service Area
70+ Partners
Manufacturer Network
100+ Years
Home Standard
Ask earth'smart powered by tect about a coordinated path forward.
Architect-led resilient design and coordination.
Early access to product expertise.
Integrated homes built for generations.
Tell earth'smart powered by tect about your site, goals, and rebuild timeline. We'll help you understand whether an integrated design-build path is the right fit.
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.