Ameridura ICF Housing Factory

Design from the line backward

Design the house from the manufacturing line backward. Simple rectangular footprints, fewer corners, standardized openings, and planned penetrations reduce ICF labor, bracing, waste, and complexity. Finish packages create luxury. Structural geometry does not.

All 50 states is a certification, plan-review, inspection, licensing, and installation program — not a machine purchase. Modular programs commonly require manufacturing-facility licensing, a quality-assurance manual, model/state plan approval, and ongoing inspections.

You manufacture the complete house.

You buy foam shapes, steel joists, and — if soils need them — helical piers. That is how every housing plant works. You do not wait to own those factories to ship a house.

Phase I builds every catalog SKU: The 1,250, The 1,500, The 1,850, The 2,100, The 2,500, and The 2,750. There is no 640-SF house. A finished Ameridura Home leaves the 40,000-square-foot plant — ICF walls assembled, poured and cured; floor cassette built on our tables; roof cassette; wet core; electrical; HVAC installed; cabinets; baths; openings; finishes; QC serial; load-out; truck to the pad. That is the manufacturer. Toyota does not own the steel mill. Ford does not own the tire plant. Ameridura does not own Benchmark’s foam press, Bailey’s joist mill, or PierTech’s pier plant — and still manufactures the house.

The $5,000,000 already buys the house line: CNC / hot-wire, wall jigs, CNC rebar bender, plasma table, floor and roof tables, wet-core cell, cabinet CNC, handling, and fleet. A foam press, a joist mill, and a pier factory would displace that line if they were crammed into the same note.

Specified systems — mold, roll, code

You manufacture the house. Foam, joists, and piers are bought-in parts with engineered specs — not a confession that the plant cannot build. Walls, floor, and foundation interface are taken from listed assemblies, not from a private code and not from a jobsite invention. Foam shapes come from a molder working to PE drawings. Floor joists are roll-formed cold-formed steel, specified to work with ICF. Where soils need it, the house sits on helical piers. Architects and engineers stamp to the ICC family as the destination state adopted it. Ameridura takes what that stack already lists. It does not write a substitute code.

• Custom EPS / ICF shapes — mold from engineered specs. Buy a proven ICC-ES (or equivalent) ICF form system for the repeating wall. Buy custom-molded shapes from a U.S. molder when the SKU needs them. CNC / hot-wire in the plant for openings and trims. No steam boiler. No shape-moulding press on this note. Benchmark Foam is a supplier class. It is not a press we are buying with ITL proceeds.
• Roll-formed steel floor joists — the second-floor cassette. Specify a CFS joist class for the second-floor cassette and buy cut-to-length joists until a roll-former earns its keep. The cassette table, connectors, subfloor, and fire/draft blocking stay in the plant. Designed BOM still uses a planning $4.80/SF joist number until a TotalJoist or equivalent quote replaces it. Do not treat wood I-joists as the locked structural system if engineering releases steel. No roll-former, no New Zealand plant purchase, no Bailey equity. Specified joist class. Quoted steel replaces the planning number.
• Helical piers — foundation interface where geotech says so. Typical Gulf-South pad remains a site package on the buyer or developer: slab, thickened edges, or piers as the geotech and PE stamp. Helical piers are a specified option on that package — purchased and installed in the field, not molded in the 40,000-SF plant. Piers are not inside the $5,000,000 manufacturing platform. Land, soils, and foundation sit outside the manufacturer P&L — same rule as the lot.
• ICC codes as adopted — the only code we take. Louisiana IRC as adopted is the first factory label. Destination-state codes govern later expansion. Engineering typicals, connections, and The 1,250 first article are built so a PE can stamp them to the adopted ICC family — not to a brochure. Code is a licensing, plan-review, and inspection program. It is in the $150k certification bucket. It is not a machine.

Production catalog

The product is the line: The 1,250, The 1,500, The 1,850, The 2,100, The 2,500, and The 2,750. Every model is factory-built ICF modular, IRC as adopted by Louisiana, set on a permanent foundation. Developers, production builders, and contractors buying as builder of record pay $112 per living square foot at the factory gate. Louisiana families pay $125 per living square foot. Realtors are a lead source inside the family channel, not a separate housing channel.

Ameridura manufactures a six-model ICF housing line on one set of stations: The 1,250, The 1,500, The 1,850, The 2,100, The 2,500, and The 2,750. Phase I produces the first four. The 1,500 is the hero / volume model. The 1,250 is first article. The 2,500 and The 2,750 stay fully engineered on-deck — BIM, BOM, routing, price — and turn on when demand asks. There is no 640-SF house. Finish packages change appearance. The structural SKU does not. Production mix follows purchase orders.

Formula ranking

Make vs buy

Manufacture the complete house on this floor. Do not manufacture every commodity that goes into it. Foam shapes, mill steel, glass, HVAC equipment, appliances, and helical piers are purchased inputs — the same way a car plant buys steel and tires. Make the assemblies that give cost, speed, quality, and IP advantage.

Terry gate

Do not buy a single major machine until the production system is designed.

1. Lock The 1,250 / 1,500 / 1,850 / 2,100 library (2,500 / 2,750 engineered on-deck)
2. BOM for each model
3. Cycle time and labor hours
4. Machine requirements
5. Station layout
6. Factory footprint
7. Equipment specifications
8. Vendor RFQs (replace every estimate in the budget)
9. Installation
10. Prototype / first article (The 1,250 remains the first physical house)
11. Production validation
12. Certification
13. Mass production

Digital plant

Ameridura manufactures on the industrial 3D stack: Autodesk BIM, OpenUSD interchange, NVIDIA compute. Every house has a digital twin. The Alliance for OpenUSD is the standard. NVIDIA Inception is the program.

Ameridura’s digital plant is industrial production: configuration → Autodesk BIM → OpenUSD interchange → PE release → BOM → cut list → production → QC → shipping → digital twin of every house. Autodesk authors. NVIDIA computes. Alliance for OpenUSD is the standard — Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, NVIDIA. NVIDIA Inception is the manufacturer program. Khronos glTF delivers the dealer configurator. OpenTofu pins plant infrastructure. Nix pins the toolchain. The PE stamps. A frozen plate stays frozen. The house is the product.

Alliance for OpenUSD founding members: Pixar · Adobe · Apple · Autodesk · NVIDIA

Ameridura is an NVIDIA Inception manufacturer. The digital plant — configurator, BIM, OpenUSD twin, production data — runs on the NVIDIA industrial stack. Application is free, no equity, no cohort. CTO and CEO file after EIN and the live site. Credits and preferred hardware pricing are operating. They do not replace the booked Autodesk seats and they do not fund the $5 million uses.

Customer configurationAutodesk BIM / CADOpenUSD digital twinEngineering release — PE stampBill of materialsPurchasing / inventoryCNC / work instructionsProduction stationsQC / serial recordLoad planTransportSite erectionCommissioningCertificate of occupancy interfaceWarranty / digital home record

Departments

Phases

This loan is the house factory. Foam moulding, batch plant, apartment/hotel pods, and every robot that actually earns a cell are named on the full in-house stack — not stuffed into $5,000,000.

7-acre plant parcel — site zones

• Old Gentilly — NASA across the street (not our dirt)
• West truck gate + 28′ gravel drive the length of Phase I
• East visitor gate — demonstration pad (The 1,250 first-article house; factory tour is the showroom)
• Employee parking / south office apron
• 40,000 SF high-bay (~170′ × 235′) — offices south, receiving west, four docks north
• Material yard
• Finished-home staging (modules on fixtures)
• Trailer / truck yard + hammerhead
• Stormwater / buffer
• Phase I expansion pad — same parcel, not this $5 million
• Remainder ~5.7 acres to the railroad — yard / later pad, not lots

Manufacturing bibles

• Product Bible. Every model, option, and configuration rule.
• Engineering Bible. Every structural system, connection, and calculation package.
• Manufacturing Bible. Every production step, takt, and work instruction.
• Quality Bible. Every inspection, NCR, and digital birth certificate.
• Regulatory Bible. Every required approval and the 50-state matrix.
• Supply-Chain Bible. Every supplier, component, and alternate.
• Field Installation Bible. Exactly how the house is founded, set, connected, and commissioned.
• Digital Manufacturing Bible. How CAD becomes a physical house.
• Emergency / Disaster Bible. Hurricane-prone-region performance and recovery.