Turnkey Delivery
Earth’smart™ Path A brings architecture, engineering, construction, permit coordination, and manufacturer input into one aligned team from concept through construction, reducing friction and improving decisions early.
Earth'smart powered by tect delivers fully aligned turnkey home construction services for homeowners who need more than a conventional build. From architecture and engineering to construction coordination, manufacturer input, permit strategy, and resilience planning, the Earth’smart™ Path A model creates 100+ year homes engineered for fire, flood, earthquake, comfort, durability, and long-term insurance realities.

Integrated design, construction, resilience, and manufacturer coordination for high-performance custom homes.
Earth’smart™ Path A brings architecture, engineering, construction, permit coordination, and manufacturer input into one aligned team from concept through construction, reducing friction and improving decisions early.
Earth'smart powered by tect designs and builds fire-hardened custom homes for WUI regions using non-combustible assemblies, Class A roofing, ember-resistant detailing, defensible-space coordination, and integrated suppression strategies.
High-performance custom homes combine refined design with energy-efficient envelopes, electrified systems, solar and battery readiness, low-maintenance materials, filtered air, and water-conscious technologies.
Integrated fire-resilient systems include fire-resistive walls, non-combustible roofing, ember-resistant vents, on-site fire water, vapor-dome suppression, and FIREBOZZ® water cannons where appropriate.
Healthy, energy-efficient home systems integrate fresh filtered air, ERV or HRV ventilation, all-electric mechanical equipment, smart automation, leak detection, water quality, and predictive monitoring.
Through TectApp™, projects gain early access to a community of 70+ building product manufacturers across structure, envelope, roofing, water, energy, fire protection, and mechanical systems.

Earth'smart powered by tect begins by clarifying goals, site risks, budget range, resilience priorities, insurance concerns, and delivery expectations. This establishes whether Earth’smart™ Path A turnkey delivery is the right fit.
Earth'smart powered by tect aligns the people, products, and performance strategy behind a better home.
Architecture, engineering, construction, and permits are coordinated from concept through completion.
TectApp™ brings product experts into decisions early, before costly construction conflicts arise.
Homes are engineered for fire, flood, earthquake exposure, comfort, and long-term durability.
System-level documentation supports today’s stricter wildfire and high-risk property insurance realities.
Architect-led guidance for resilient custom 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.
Turnkey construction means one coordinated delivery team manages the major parts of the project from concept through completion. For tect’s Earth’smart™ Path A model, that includes architecture, engineering, construction coordination, permit strategy, manufacturer input, resilience planning, and documentation. The homeowner is not left to manage disconnected consultants, conflicting specifications, or late-stage system decisions.
Speak with earth'smart powered by tect about your site, goals, and resilience priorities.
Earth'smart powered by tect supports resilient turnkey home construction for homeowners in high-risk residential markets.
Northern & Southern California
Service Area
Turnkey Path A
Delivery Model
70+ Partners
Manufacturer Network
Ask earth'smart powered by tect if your project is a fit.
Architect-led guidance for resilient custom homes.
70+ manufacturer ecosystem supports better decisions.
Risk-reduction documentation for high-risk homes.
Tell earth'smart powered by tect about your project, site conditions, and goals. The team will help determine the right path for a resilient turnkey 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.