The construction industry accounts for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with building materials accounting for 11% and building energy use for another 28%. If the industry builds all of the homes needed to meet housing demand using traditional methods and materials, doing so will only feed the climate crisis. 

There is an affordable housing crisis in the USA. One in four housing markets are not affordable by historic standards; and this issue doesn’t just affect low-income neighborhoods but also the so-called ‘missing middle’ – middle-income earners who have extremely limited options for home ownership.

Mighty Buildings is an Oakland, CA based 3D printed home construction company that is transforming home construction with robotics, materials innovation, and a vision for addressing the dual crises of housing availability and climate. 

I caught up with, Sam Ruben, Chief Sustainability Officer and co-founder, Alexey Dubov, co-founder and Dmitry Starodubtsev, CTO and co-founder and Slava Solonitsyn, the CEO, to learn more about their groundbreaking solution.

We believe in approaching the housing and climate crises as a both/and proposition (or “dual crises”) given the interplay between the two. The reality is that the climate crisis is impacting the built environment and driving people from their homes — whether it be due to rising sea levels, increasing number and scale of wildfires, increasingly severe storm seasons, catastrophic wind events, and more. At the same time, the housing crisis is placing more people in the face of these realities as housing costs drive construction farther away from city centers. And it is often those least able to afford it who face the brunt of these realities. 

Mighty Buildings is trying to address these dual crises by transforming how we build homes and the materials we use to build them by using 3D printing, robotics, and innovative materials.

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