Our mission is to convert climate change challenges into housing solutions.

The PathHouse process* for mass timber volumetric modular housing units:

  • Sequesters carbon

  • Replaces energy-intensive materials

  • Contributes to wildfire risk reduction

  • Stimulates rural and urban workforce economy

  • Utilizes the benefits of industrialized construction to address our housing challenges, at scale

*patents pending

PathHouse is an at-scale solution for North America’s ever mounting housing crisis.

  • Traditional construction is hamstrung by regulatory and financial processes that are time consuming, costly, and financially risky for developers. 

  • The Governor of Oregon, Tina Kotek, has called for 36,000 new homes to be constructed per year in the state.  This is a three-fold increase over previous annual numbers.  We need to make dramatic changes in order to address her call to action.

  • The U.S. housing market is 3.8 million homes short of what is needed to meet the country’s present demand, according to a 2021 analysis by Freddie Mac. This represents a 52% rise in the nation’s home shortage as compared to 2018.

  • Frequent environmental and economic disasters have created a housing crisis that conventional “affordable housing” construction and current manufactured housing models cannot keep up with.

Our business model is based on pre-designed, pre-approved, and warrantied modules that dramatically reduce design, permitting, and construction time.

We’re bridging housing and the environment to create a home for every person who needs one.

Our production is focused on sustainability:

  • Careful material sourcing

  • Waste reduction

  • Sustainability analysis

Our goal is to scale up production with the utilization of automation technology and the productization of architecture.

PathHouse units save developers carrying costs, risk, and time.

  • We do this by providing up to 80% of the total cost of the structure with off-the-shelf solutions that dramatically reduce the required material and labor resources at installation.

  • Because the units are on-demand, qualified building owners can secure financing for their project shortly before installation, reducing carrying costs.

  • And, our customers can be confident that the materials and labor associated with the product are part of an equitable climate change solution.

We’re closing the loop from natural disasters to on-demand housing.

We partner with USDA Forestry Service to repurpose wildfire salvaged wood for mass timber manufacturing.

There are 15 operating mass timber manufacturers in North America. Eight of those manufacturers are within 600 miles of our factory site, accounting for 20–25% of the nation’s total aggregated capacity of 58,798,920 cubic feet annually (Forest Business Network, 2021).

Based in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, we are leveraging Oregon and Washington's present position as leaders in mass timber technology.

PathHouse prioritizes wood fiber sourced from regenerative forest harvests. Our factory facility will be located at the nexus of truck, rail, and shipping lines in order to leverage our regional mass timber (CLT and MPP) manufacturing partners:

  • SmartLam

  • Vaagen Timber

  • Freres Lumber

  • Mercer

  • Structurlam

We use lower-value wood species from salvage and restoration forest projects in the production of mass timber, our primary structural building material.

We can revolutionize how America builds attainably priced, high performance, and resilient homes, while at the same time make our communities more resilient through meeting housing needs, improving forest management, and creating well-paying skilled jobs in both rural and urban communities.

Design your PathHouse vision with cutting edge technology.

Generate is a tech-enabled architecture platform devoted to transforming the building industry.

Design your PathHouse vision with easy exterior solutions and interior alteration packages.

LSW Architects is a design firm that offers packaged solutions that meet the needs of single family, multi-family, and emergency housing.

Thanks to our partners.