Open-Built® Custom Designs
The world is filled with industries that utilize computer-based, standardized organizing and design systems. For automobiles, aircraft and even cruise ships, this design system is called CATIA. Similar systems are used to design and build everything from cordless drills to the hard drive in your computer. Because the design parameters are standardized, these systems allow designers to work collaboratively and call up previous design elements to use in new designs. Once a design is finalized, these systems tell machines how to build and assemble components, track inventory and parts distribution, and update standards to keep designs and design elements current.
When Bensonwood realized that the benefits of standardizing design and construction elements could make home building more precise, more affordable, more efficient and more available to everyone, Open-Built® was born. Best of all, Open-Built® actually enhances the ability to customize designs.
Today, Bensonwood uses Open-Built® for everything we build. For our customers it makes the design process more collaborative and enjoyable. It gives our designers more time to make designs that are truly breathtaking, more personal and more accurate than ever before.
When designs are done, Open-Built® gives our shops the ability to machine timbers, assemble higher-quality components and employ greater craftsmanship in every part of the building process.
Open-Built® brings home building into the twenty-first century, allowing your Bensonwood designer to explore, create and analyze in three dimensions electronically. With Bensonwood and Open-Built®, efficiency abounds while experience leads the way. It's because Open-Built® offers unlimited digital access to thousands of three-dimensional elements and room groupings used in the homes that we've created before. These elements form the digital palette by which our architects form customized designs to suit your unique tastes, desires, and sensibilities.
With the design finalized, Open-Built® helps digitally direct construction of your home, driving computer-controlled machinery to create timbers, wall and roof panels and the building of subassemblies. The result is one of the most finely crafted, highest quality homes achievable.