Seed Eco-Home Factory Built Modular Home Working Group

This option is the same as the Seed Eco-Home Remote Enterprise Option - with an addition collaborative development commitment towards developing a distributed network of Seed Eco-Home manufacturing locations for Factory Build Modular Homes.

The idea is to leverage remote entrepreneurial talent for developing a Distributive Enterprise around the Seed Eco-Home. We are currently developing the Seed Eco-Home 6 as the base model, with further iterations aimed at full productization. The concept is that of a high quality, well-designed, site-built or transportable, 720 square foot starter home with ecological features. Ecological features include stock 6kW of PV, and a thermal battery, in development. The autonomy milestone is for these houses to produce their own food, water, energy, and process their own waste. Productization aims for 3 fronts:

1. DIY model produced by individuals anywhere
2. A swarm-buildable model geared specifically for Extreme Build workshops and immersion education settings
3. Scalable production with larger swarms - such as 10 homes like this being built in parallel with 240 people
4. Factory-Built Modular homes - homes built in a microfactory and transported to their final location. This leverages the advantages of a controlled build environment, while mitigating building inspections via inspection at the microfactory itself. This is OSE's first explicit motion at an open franchise.

Open licensing means that all building designs, build plans, operations, and enterprise aspects are open source, OSHWA- and DIN SPEC 3105-compliant. Anyone is free to manufacture these homes from our open plans. Certification is not free, however, and producers may work with OSE to become certified according to quality control standards that exceed industry standards. Specifically, we promote open engineering standards via open publishing of reference designs and specifications. Further, we develop production machines and techniques for open source building materials to reduce the cost of housing to Zero Marginal Cost.

Program Requirements

To sign up, first register for the Seed Eco-Home Remote Enterprise Option. To join the working group, to qualify:

1. You must have an explicit interest in starting a factory-build modular home enterprise using the Seed Eco-Home build system.
2. You must be interested in reducing the cost of housing by learning how to optimize house building
3. You must submit an initial business plan for your Factory Build Modular Home enterprise, and whether you would like to pursue a SEH FBMH Certification (see Outcomes section)

Program Outcomes

The program starts Feb 1, 2026. In the program, we will develop:

• OSE Seed Eco-Home Certification - the performance and quality control standard for manufacturing Seed Eco-Homes. Includes features, finish quality, tolerances, performance specs. The certification is modular: we will define specifications for all systems - such as structure, foundations, utilities, PV, thermal batteries, waste processing, etc. The goal is to exceed the Living Building Challenge and create new standards for autonomous, productive homes which produce electricity, food, microfactory products, fuels, water, do waste processing, ecological integration, and more.
• Factory Built Modular Home (FBMH) Certification - a set of templates for developing a FBMH operation anywhere in the USA and abroad - in terms of the legal standing and form (facility, plant, machines, human resources). This includes filings, legal, and pawerwork requirements - optimized by creating templates and workflows for acquiring such certification in any state in the USA and elsewhere. All of our documents will be published under an open license.
• OSE-specific Certification Protocol - outside of state requirements, we will publish a procedural guide for securing the Seed Eco-Home Factory Built Modular Home Certification. This certification is a formal document certifying that any distributed operation can build Seed Eco-Homes to spec. Anyone is free to build our homes, but anyone who wishes to obtain a quality control certification as a close co-developer and collaborator - can apply for our seal of approval at a reasonable cost. The intent is transparency on product features and quality, to promote Distributed Market Substitution in a Zero Marginal Cost Society sense.