Recent natural disasters, tight rebuilding budgets, and insurance payouts that do not cover the cost of rebuilding are creating opportunities for companies that use modular construction, 3-D printing or other nontraditional methods of home building, in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Florida, and the Southeastern U.S. ICON, a company that makes 3D-printed homes is rearranging its expansion strategy to target disaster-prone markets such as California and Florida. Modular builder Samara is working with billionaire developer Rick Caruso’s rebuilding nonprofit, Steadfast LA, to offer dozens of free modular homes to low-income residents who lost their homes in the LA fires. And the Los Angeles Mayor’s office is having conversations with more than a dozen alternative builders to explore non-traditional construction options.
