Build Ready Resources
What Is a Build Ready Home Package?
A Build Ready home package gives your builder a designed, engineered home and the materials to build it. Learn what you get, what stays local and who it suits.
Build Ready Resources
Build Ready Guides
Articles on Build Ready home packages, the Shell Package and Full Package, and working with your local builder.
Build Ready Articles
Resource Series
Guides to Build Ready home packages, the Shell Package and Full Package, and working with your local builder.
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Shell Package or Full Package: Which Fits Your Build?
Compare the Build Ready Shell Package and Full Package: what each includes, what stays with your local builder, and how to choose the right level.
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Working With Your Local Builder on a Build Ready Home
How a Build Ready home works with your local builder: who does what, how to choose and vet a builder, and what to agree before the first delivery.
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Planning a Build Ready Home in Canada or the United States
Planning a Build Ready home in Canada or the United States: site, climate, local review, permits, freight and what to budget for beyond the package.
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Build Ready Project Management: How It Works
Build Ready Project Management is an optional ConstructionX service that coordinates your package project remotely while your local builder runs the site.
Resource Pathways
Choose your research path.
Each category groups practical articles: design, building science and build systems, project management, pricing and estimates, and Build Ready home packages.
Design Resources
Design Guides
Articles on planning a custom home, picking a stock, modified or custom design, choosing a design build team, modern home innovation and lighting, before the drawings are fixed.
Build Resources
Build Guides
Building science, energy efficiency and the four build systems, wood, steel, ICF and barndo, including a thirteen article steel framing series.
Management Resources
Management Guides
Articles on managing a home build: residential and builder project management, the risks of acting as your own general contractor, payment disputes with a builder and taking over a troubled project.
ConstructionX Resources
Pricing and Estimate Guides
Articles on custom home pricing, cost plus contracts, estimates and low bids, so you can judge what a home should cost and what a low number really means.
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Articles on Build Ready home packages, the Shell Package and Full Package, and working with your local builder.
Project Readiness
Bring your research into the project conversation.
Use these resources as a starting point, then move into a discovery meeting when your site, region, design intent, budget, and project questions are ready for review.
