Seed Eco-Home Labor Strategy

Enterprise Level

• Train or hire full-time construction managers
• Jon helps find them
• Management track is clear - see SEH Revenue Model Development - builders start at $32.80 after testing out to $65/hr levels of productivity. 50/50. Which is 3 homes per year, and we get better with automation and import substitution. Management track starts at $50/hr = $92k with one week vacation, for running crews at different sites (6 crews like that) - each is worth a million.
• Investing in Construction Managers is a way to $1M net per manager, so construction managers are the first priority. Back end support.
• Job announcement:
  • Secures parts from BOMs, updates BOMs
  • Negotiates with Structural Engineers and Electrical Engineers for required stamped documents
  • Inventories materials
  • Secures material deliveries to 4 job sites at a time
  • Managers construction foremen at each site: 4 builds, 3 foremen at each site, 24 build crew
  • Coordinates with Foremen on data collection using Data Collection App for build progress.
  • Gains deep familiarity with build process
• What we need is not a construction manager: typical role:
  • repare cost estimates, budgets, and work timetables - done already as we're Digital
  • Interpret and explain contracts and technical information to other professionals - done, we have a crew and foremen
  • Collaborate with architects, engineers, and other construction specialists - done, we have a stock package, this is just admin
  • Select subcontractors and schedule and coordinate their activities - done - we have it in house
  • Monitor projects and report progress and budget matters to the construction firm and clients - done with time lapse app by Foreman/Build Manager
  • Respond to work delays, emergencies, and other problems with the project - this is addressed by hired onsite 3rd party inspector.
  • Ensure that the project complies with legal requirements, such as building and safety codes - done, we're Digital.
• We need on-the-ground people. Who does the office work? Operations Manager, who is ideally coming from an initial build crew.
  • Admin, hired 3rd party.
  • Payroll - automated
  • Construction Instructor - 'teacher' who is out there with the crew. Does both class time and build management in the format of an education operation.
• Growth:
  • 4 sites at a time, 3 foremen at each site who are familiar with the work..

Nonprofit Enterprise

• 1 week online training + written test on using cheatsheets
• Bank volunteer hours - bofa + 3 others with presentation pumping the pavement + for 20 people, 5 weekends on Saturdays.
• Church program - 24 churches, 2 people from each church, at 5 PM for pour. 100 churches - 100 houses.
• Numbers - develop a program for Banks + Churches. Real numbers. Dozen homes each.
• Churches to Banks seems like 10-1. Incentive: church member gets a house. 2 options for OSE 20% - sponsored, or cross-subsidized for anything above 25% on regular builds.
• Is there state tuition assistance with edu programs?

Hires

• 2 categories - ethical and simple time
• Graduates from SEH 1, Aquaponics 1 (Jenna, Jonathan, Cali, Tennessee). OSE Builder Crash Course - Anthony, Logan, Peggy, Ken. And donuts from St. Joe.
• YouTube recruitment - $X for Y skill on date Z
• Highly paid experts and construction magrs ($50-100) who already build and the heir build skill is transparent
• Last resort - temps
• Prison labor, highly paid
• Vets project. Motivated by low cost house at $90k + Land + $10k labor + local customer
• Hit the streets for local supporters
• Urban gardening temp structures of rebar as the state of art aquaponics + urban gardening
• Local church - group of 20 for 3 days. House sold at 60+20 OSE+10+land
• $20k git clone house=BOM + labor 500 hours at trained level, 1000 hours untrained + 1 week of weekend trainings. Weekend training: we build smaller modules!

Guerilla

• Local ethical supporters with their networks - volunteer
• Local paid unskilled workers for job training and security
• Community service hours as judgment
• Prisoners paid. Workforce training after coming out.