Blue Sky Homes – Modern, Eco Friendly, Steel Homes

Our homes are ideal for building on steeply sloped land, and more cost effective in this application than traditional building methods.

Blue Sky Homes are build using components from Blue Sky Building Systems™. The core of the building is comprised of the the Blue Sky Frame™, which enables homes to be built on steeply sloped land in a more cost effective and environmentally friendly manner that traditional slab on grade building methods. The Blue Sky Frame leverages a bi-directional moment frame made of light gauge cold rolled steel. The System allows homes to be floated above challenging topography, supported by a minimal number of tube steel columns. For example, a typical 1,500 square foot house built with the Blue Sky Frame will require 8 to 12 columns and caissons, and have a total footprint of sixteen to twenty-four square feet in the ground, with no additional grading, site work, or foundation. In the same location, a traditional slab on grade building would require significant foundation work, retaining walls, grade beams, drainage systems, and earth moving.

On a steeply sloped lot the Blue Sky Frame reduces or eliminates the need for:

• Extensive earth moving to create a flat topography for a foundation
• Trucking away removed materials, or trucking in fill
• Expensive stem or retaining walls
• Large numbers of caissons to create a solid foundation
• Concrete Slabs
• Grade Beams
• Drainage and weeping systems around the foundation
• Significantly reduces site work, labor and materials

In case studies, the Blue Sky Frame has been shown to reduce the cost of building a home by up to 20%, while also being significantly faster, producing less waste, and resulting in a stronger and more durable home.

The following 360 degree virtual tour shows the foundation of a home by Blue Sky Homes which is elevated off the ground.

More details on the Blue Sky Frame, can be found at www.blueskybuildingsystems.com.