Azure Printed Homes Co-founder Ross Maguire on 3D Printed Homes

A passion for making a change to construction industry habits that have been accepted for decades as other industries have moved forwards in leaps and bounds, for the betterment of the current global population and future generations. My first daughter’s arrival was a big catalyst!

I co-founded the company with Gene Eidelman who I met shortly after moving to LA shortly after relocating from London, UK. We first met in a Starbucks in Santa Monica Blvd, and we discovered that we shared frustrations for the same pain points in the construction industry. We created the company in 2019 and have built a team of 12 — 0ur head of growth, three project managers, bookkeeper, skilled field crew, and one robot!

By creating ADUs more affordably, faster, and better for the environment. Unique designs, uniquely fabricated, taking away the headache of traditional builds and bringing enhanced speed, precision, affordability, and environmental consciousness.

3D printing competitors tend to print on site using cement-based materials, moving printers from site to site. Inefficient and unsustainable.

Compared to other ADU and small home providers, nobody produces faster, more efficiently, or sustainably than an Azure Printed Home.

Printing the entire self-supporting structure in one go — in one day — and combining multiple traditional trades into one day print is a huge advantage.

The print material contains an ultraviolet (UV) stabilizer. We then add a further UV coating to the exterior surface of the printed material, which provides up to a 25 year warranty. The print geometry has been designed to withstand 95% of the states’ wind and snow conditions — the remaining 5% can be accommodated with structural upgrades. Insulation levels can be tailored to the necessary environmental conditions and energy requirements across the states.

Our legacy business of Azure Construction (which is now owned by Azure Printed Homes) had revenue of $3.5 million in 2021 and forecasts $4.2 million for 2022. As it stands, we have pre-sold more than $16 million worth of printed units and anticipate being able to produce the first of these by the end of November next year.

Our first printer will come online later this year, and it will have capacity to produce $8 million of revenue per year. This raise enables us to purchase printers two and three, along with the associated team and inventory to support them —  so that our current LA facility can be a $24 million revenue location.

We’re the first to market 3D printing homes with recycled materials, and we’ve assembled the team that will generate $100 million in revenue in three years.

Our ambition is to grow across the country and then beyond US borders. We already have interest from multiple other countries and continents for the future. We’d plan when the time is right to take the company public.