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Factory_OS CEO Rick Holliday (aka Elwood) and COO Larry Pace (aka Jake) are on a "Mission from God" to make a big dent in the housing crisis!

Factory_OS is proud to announce it has become an Autodesk Entrepreneur Impact Partner. Autodesk sees Design For Manufacturing and Assembly as “the future of construction” and a top priority for a planet adding two billion more people in the next 20 years.

We are innovating the way housing is built. One easy push glides the unit across the factory floor, increasing efficiency and eliminating the any need for strenuous labor.

Factory_OS is partnering with the Carpenters Union to invest in and create a specialized union training program for its workers providing the best trained, most skilled, and safest workers in the construction industry. The Carpenters’ hammer and Factory_OS’s crane come together in our mission and in our pin.

The OS in our name has a dual meaning, both equally as important to our mission. At Factory_OS, we believe innovation and the creative approach of off site (OS = Off Site) construction teamed with new technology (OS = Operating Systems) are the key to transforming the housing industry in our region and beyond.

In October 2017, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation and Factory_OS had the pleasure of hosting Lindbacks in the Bay Area. Swedish-based Lindbacks is one of the preeminent off-site manufacturers in the world, and over the course of the weeklong visit, we learned a great deal from this experienced off-site manufacturer.

Factory_OS formed a strategic alliance with the Delancey Street Foundation and will be working with the Foundation to provide vocational training for substance abusers and convicted criminals.

Factory_OS signed a Union Agreement with the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council and is proud to announce that it will be employing Bay Area union laborers to build housing.

After signing a lease with Lennar Mare Island, Factory_OS took possession of 1245 Nimitz Avenue in Vallejo, CA (Building 680 on Mare Island). This building consists of approximately 256,000 Square Feet and serves as the headquarters of Factory_OS.

Holliday Development (as developer) and Cannon Constructors (as General Contractor) completed the construction of 5880 3rd St. in San Francisco. This 136-unit project in the Bayview neighborhood is the largest multifamily, off-site construction project in the history of San Francisco.