Five stages, one accountable party. We are not assembling a deal out of other people’s work — we own every step, which is why we can stand behind the result.
We buy the parcel ourselves. Access, water source, elevation, drainage, and title are cleared before anything else happens — because on this coast that is where deals die.
Plans are drawn for the specific lot and its specific orientation. Where the sun lands in dry season, where the wind comes from, where the view actually is.
Steel-reinforced ICF shell, aluminium glazing systems, our crew, our supervision. We are on site. The build is not subcontracted out to whoever was available that month.
Pool, landscaping, appliances, fixtures, smart locks, security. The house is completed to move-in standard — not to drywall-and-good-luck.
You buy a finished, functioning, furnished-if-you-want-it home. We are still here afterward, because we live and work in the same valley.
Every one of these costs more than the local alternative. In a tropical, seismic, salt-air environment, every one of them pays for itself.
Insulated concrete form — steel-reinforced concrete poured between two permanent layers of rigid insulation. Engineered for a seismic zone, not adapted to one. Costa Rica sits on an active margin and we build for it deliberately.
High-specification thermally-broken aluminium throughout — not PVC, not timber. On this coast, wood swells and rots and PVC yellows and warps inside a few seasons. Aluminium does neither, and it carries far bigger spans of glass.
Not a plunge pool with a marketing photograph taken from the good angle. Forty feet, tiled, with a genuine deep end — the kind of pool a family actually uses every day.
No timber framing means no termites, no carpenter ants, no rot, no mould in the cavity. In a jungle climate that is the difference between a house that lasts and a house that fights you for the rest of its life.
Continuous insulation on both faces plus concrete mass. The envelope stops fighting the sun, so the air conditioning runs less every month you own it — and you barely hear the rain, which on this coast is not a small thing.
Hardwood joinery, stone surfaces, top-tier appliances, smart-lock entry, landscaping, security. You take delivery of a home you can move into, not a shell with a punch list attached.
ICF costs more per square metre than block or stick framing, and it takes a crew who have poured it before. You get that money back in cooling bills, in maintenance you never have to do, and in a structure that does not degrade in a climate designed to degrade things. If the goal is the cheapest possible build, we are not the right builder.
