Diamond Age, which moved its California headquarters to Phoenix last year, has begun selling its first community of 3D printed homes starting in the upper $200,000s.
Using full-stack robotics, the company can build homes within 60 days, said Jack Oslan, CEO of Diamond Age.
"Diamond Age is not a 3D printer," Oslan said. "Diamond Age is a construction automation system. We are building robots bigger than houses to build houses. We do leverage 3D printing, but it is only a small facet of what we do."
Oslan said he's developing robotics tools to offset the labor required to build a new home.
"There isn't enough labor to build homes in this country anymore," he said. "If you don't have the labor, the only way to solve the problem is through automation. Our system will ultimately offset 60% of the manual labor required to build a new home. Our goals are better, faster, cheaper."
While the walls are 3D printed, the house is finished with robotics.
"We build the roof, plaster the walls, stucco the exterior, paint, and cut openings for doors and windows with robotics," Oslan said. "We're building homes in less than 60 days and we're actually delivering the finished homes ready for consumers to buy."'
The first community of 3D printed homes is being unveiled in Casa Grande on behalf of Denver-based Century Communities Inc. (NYSE: CCS) under its Century Complete brand.
"Diamond Age is a B to B company," Oslan said. "We have aligned ourselves with the production homebuilding industry. Our mission is to get people into their first home faster. To do that, we need access to lots of land that's already developed. That's what production homebuilders do extraordinarily well. We're literally partnering with these companies."
His partnership is not exclusive to Century Communities.
"You can't solve the housing crisis and be exclusive to anyone," Oslan said. "Our goal is to be building all across the U.S. We do that literally one community at a time."
Moving headquarters
When Diamond Age moved its headquarters to Phoenix from northern California in February 2022, 20 employees moved here.
"One of the most gratifying things about coming to Arizona is of the people that came with us, seven of them bought their very first home," Oslan said. "For someone in the homebuilding space to see their employees buy their first house was extraordinarily gratifying. This move enabled people to get into their first home faster. That's our mission. We want to get young people and first-time homebuyers into their first home faster."
Today, the company has 160 employees.
Oslan said he moved the company to Phoenix for two reasons, one being that he had a lot of friends in the industry here already who helped him navigate and get started quickly.
The second reason is the cost of doing business in Arizona is much lower than California.
"We can pay our employees higher wages here in Arizona that are still less than what we would have had to pay in California," he said. "And they can all get a house."
The homes Diamond Age is building for Century Complete's Mountain View Estates located off Arica Road and South John Jacob Astor Avenue in Casa Grande come in three single-story floor plans, offering up to four bedrooms and 1,901 square feet.
Most of the homes start at $289,990 and go up to $354,990.
