Steel Frame Systems
Non-combustible steel-framed assemblies are coordinated with wall, roof, insulation, and seismic requirements to create stronger, longer-lasting custom homes for high-risk residential environments.
Earth'smart powered by tect delivers steel frame homes and advanced building solutions engineered for long-term resilience, safety, comfort, and lower lifecycle cost. From non-combustible structural systems to coordinated fire, energy, water, and envelope strategies, every project is built around integrated performance—not piecemeal specifications—so homeowners can build once, build forward, and create a 100+ year home.
Integrated structural, material, fire-resilience, and delivery solutions for high-performance custom homes built to last.
Non-combustible steel-framed assemblies are coordinated with wall, roof, insulation, and seismic requirements to create stronger, longer-lasting custom homes for high-risk residential environments.
Earth'smart powered by tect specifies advanced materials such as steel framing, concrete masonry, ICF, AAC, mineral wool, fiber cement, metal roofing, ember-resistant vents, and fire-rated openings as integrated building systems.
Homes are designed around fire-resistive walls, Class A roofing, ember-resistant venting, defensible-space coordination, and integrated on-site fire suppression for WUI and wildfire-exposed sites.
Long-life roofing and structural systems are specified for fire resistance, seismic performance, and site-specific loads, including metal, tile, slate, and other durable Class A assemblies.
Earth'smart™ Path A brings architecture, engineering, construction, permit strategy, and manufacturer input into one coordinated team from concept through construction.
Steel and advanced building solutions are integrated with fire, flood, earthquake, energy, water, and air-quality strategies to support 100+ year residential performance.
Earth'smart powered by tect begins by understanding the homeowner’s priorities, site hazards, budget range, performance expectations, and long-term ownership goals. This establishes the foundation for structural, envelope, fire, water, energy, and insurance documentation decisions.
Earth'smart powered by tect brings commercial-grade coordination to advanced custom home delivery.
One aligned team coordinates architecture, engineering, construction, permits, systems, and specifications.
TectApp™ connects projects to 70+ manufacturers for early, informed product decisions.
Homes are engineered for fire, flood, earthquake exposure, comfort, and long service life.
Documentation supports brokers and underwriters reviewing risk in hard-to-insure residential markets.
Architect-led guidance for resilient custom home delivery and coordination.
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.
Steel frame homes use non-combustible steel structural members instead of conventional wood framing for key parts of the building. In tect’s approach, steel framing is coordinated with wall assemblies, roofing, insulation, windows, doors, mechanical systems, and fire-resilience strategies so the home functions as an integrated performance system rather than a collection of disconnected products.
Talk with earth'smart powered by tect about your site, goals, and delivery path.
Earth'smart powered by tect supports advanced custom home projects for homeowners in selected high-risk residential markets.
Northern & Southern California
Service Area
70+ Partners
Manufacturer Network
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Architect-led guidance for resilient home delivery.
70+ partners supporting coordinated specifications.
Risk documentation for broker review.
Tell earth'smart powered by tect about your site, goals, budget range, and delivery needs. The team will review whether a turnkey or advisory engagement is the right path forward.
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.