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We’re honored to share a recent interview with our CEO and co founder, Edie Dillman, featured by What We Love: New Mexico. Their work centers people, place, and care, telling stories about what it truly means to love where you live and to take responsibility for its future.
In Looking Ahead, we share updates on the Fort Collins Design for 2030 pilot, a cliffside Co.LAB project in Nova Scotia, national event appearances, and recent recognition of our Director of Practice. A snapshot of the partnerships and progress shaping the year ahead.
The City of Fort Collins has selected a team led by Building Wellness, with B.PUBLIC Prefab, Steven Winter Associates, Inc., and HereAbout Homes as project partners, to develop pre-approved, high-performance home plans through the Designed to 2030 Pilot Program. Read the full Press Release here.
Co.LAB partner Holly Mumford of Hereabout Designs shares insights from a recent B.PUBLIC Prefab project in Nova Scotia, reflecting on collaboration, early design decisions, and how a simple, repeatable plan can adapt beautifully to different landscapes through high-performance prefab construction.
B.PUBLIC Prefab was recently featured in Offsite Builder for its people-first approach to workforce development. By hiring for attitude and pairing curiosity and commitment with hands-on training, B.PUBLIC is helping builders gain the skills and confidence needed to deliver high-performance prefab projects.
JD Scott, Director of Practice and Lead Architect at B.PUBLIC Prefab, was honored by the AIA Santa Fe chapter with the Leadership in Sustainable Practice Award for Greta House, a high-performance Passive House project advancing affordable, resilient design.
B.PUBLIC is featured in New America’s The Rooftop as an example of a housing product entrepreneur using panelized building systems to help translate housing innovation and policy ambition into homes that actually get built.
We led a day-long workshop in partnership with the City of Milwaukee’s ECO and Moxie Development Collaborative, sharing building science insights and showcasing a full-scale prefab mockup. That mockup now resides at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s architecture department, where it will continue to inspire the next generation of designers and builders.
Article in Santa Fe New Mexican: Playing it cool: Northern New Mexico IceBox Challenge measures future of homebuilding, posted August 8, 2025, by Cormac Dodd
B.PUBLIC Prefab proudly supported the Northern New Mexico Ice Box Challenge by donating our high-performance panels to a Passive House–designed tiny home built by local youth. This demonstration highlighted the impact of energy-efficient construction on sustainability and workforce development.
Article in KRQE News: At-risk youth getting involved in construction, filling gap left by retirees, posted August 8, 2025, by Natasha Lynn
B.PUBLIC Prefab is excited to contribute high-performance panels to one of the three new tiny homes built by local youth near our HQ in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This Passive House home, along with a tiny home built to 1950 standards and one built to the 2021 IECC building code, will be tested in the Ice Box Challenge, showcasing how applying best practices in energy efficiency can help train the next generation of tradespeople.
Los Angeles, CA — B.PUBLIC Prefab is proud to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with Bronwyn Barry of Passive House BB to offer pre-designed Passive House-standard home plans tailored for families rebuilding after the devastating Los Angeles wildfires—and for climate-conscious homeowners everywhere. This innovative partnership launches with the debut of SustAIN HAUS, a new high-performance home honoring architectural master Gregory Ain and the iconic Case Study homes lost to the fires.
The building blocks to found panelized building system company B.PUBLIC Prefab fell into place during a conversation cofounders Jonah Stanford and Edie Dillman had with their eldest daughter. She wanted to know what their generation was doing to fight climate change. The question resonated.
B.PUBLIC Prefab Welcomes Mariana Pickering as Chief Brand Officer and Community Director
B.PUBLIC Prefab has named Mariana Pickering—internationally recognized leader in Passive House education and high-performance construction—as its new Chief Brand Officer and Community Director. With more than 15 years of experience bridging advanced building science and practical application, Pickering joins B.PUBLIC to help accelerate the adoption of climate-conscious prefab solutions across North America. Her leadership marks a pivotal step in the company’s mission to reshape the future of energy-efficient building through collaboration, education, and innovation.
The Northern New Mexico Ice Box Challenge, set to take place in Summer 2025, is a building science demonstration project to highlight energy-efficient building practices, open pathways to trades-careers for local youth, and offer one solution for urgent housing needs. As part of a global initiative, Santa Fe will join a list of cities worldwide that have hosted this innovative event.
New Mexico’s growing popularity presents an opportunity to develop innovative affordable housing models for its expanding population. Fortunately, one woman-owned, public-benefit corporation has stepped up to the challenge. B.PUBLIC Prefab launched in 2019 to make climate-friendly homes more accessible for residents. To do so, the company creates high-performance, prefabricated assemblies that expedite the building process.
B.PUBLIC Prefab produced sustainable components, such as floors, walls and roof, for the forum. These prefabricated materials act as "the thermal envelope for a building" and will use 90% less energy than other buildings like it, said Jonah Stanford, co-founder and chief technical officer of B.PUBLIC Prefab. This novel, and green, approach to building is one of the reasons B.PUBLIC Prefab was chosen to work on the project, Tom Easterson-Bond, the in-house architect for SFI, told the Journal.
CEO and Co-Founder Edie Dillman says that the company has a strong commitment to the sharing of knowledge. “We focus on education that supports a builder’s evolution to hybrid site construction, assisted by offsite; on owner education about sustainability and performance; and on helping architects evolve their practice to higher code [requirements], lower carbon impacts and [greater use of] technology.”
We attended Build Show LIVE in Austin, Texas and had a blast partnering with Retrotec and joining them in their booth at the show.
Today, Terner Labs announced the inaugural cohort of ventures for its Builders Lab. The Builders Lab is an accelerator program that works with innovators in architecture, engineering, construction and hardware to scale efficient, cost-effective and sustainable methods of housing delivery across the U.S.
Shape Architecture and B.PUBLIC Prefab are thrilled to announce their trailblazing design collaboration, leveraging their combined expertise to deliver a series of high-performance, high-quality, and delightful home plans. This partnership, marked by innovation and sustainability, will see the monthly release of new signature home plans available for licensing through the remainder of 2024.