 Year after year, storm after storm, these were the homes that were left standing and people said, if I'm going to build in a hurricane zone, this is what I want. Our homes are exceptionally strong because we use materials that are very high quality. They're often designed for high wind zones and no high quality material you can't just go to the store and buy. Our home is panelized so we're pre-manufacturing sections of it in a factory and then shipping it out to you on the job site. Our round design is actually a self-supporting roof system so it doesn't have any interior load bearing walls which means that the inside can be laid out basically any way that you want. Total devastation. We lost part of the roof and most of the ceiling but I'm still alive, still here kicking. I took pictures of this place and the whole neighborhood the day before. We were all out here, all the neighbors, they just had their new roofs installed from the hail storm. Everybody was cleaning up, we were getting ready for the weekend of fun and then Harvey said okay well we're going to leave because most of those people are vacation people. They don't live here full time, not like us. Hurricane Harvey barreling into the Texas coastline. Storm surges are predicted to reach up to 12 feet. The city of Rockport, Texas is right in Harvey's path and is getting hit hard. I felt like this is a nuclear war had happened here and my neighbors had been bombed. It was heart and gut wrenching to see the damage that a lot of people have suffered through and their whole life is forever changed by this. Climate change is something that is hard to not think about when you see hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, the wildfires that have just hit California. It really makes you think about if I'm going to build a home, what is it going to be like 20 years from now, 50 years from now, 100 years from now. I'm not just designing for today but I'm designing for generations into the future and what's it going to take to make sure that we resist those things. Having a lot that was half a block from the water, we thought we really need something that is hurricane resistant and this roundhouse concept they can't build as hurricane proof but when you look through the gallery of pictures, there sure are a lot of pictures as ours is now of the Dell Tech house standing tall while everything around it is shattered. I think resilience, passive survivability is the concept of building a home that can withstand all kinds of weather extremes is something that we have been really good at and I want us to keep improving in that direction. Obviously this round shape makes sense in a high wind environment and we're able to get a lot less pressure building up on that home just because of that design but how do we go above and beyond that, beyond just the shape, how do we engineer that to be even stronger and so you see this what we call radial engineering where it's like spokes on a wheel and the entire home is like this wheel that works together so the entire system is set up to resist those high winds. There really is nothing about what we do that is rocket science. It is a simple concept and we have really perfected it over the last 50 years in the way that everything fits together and works together and to me what's really special about the Dell Tech is there is this combination of science and high tech manufacturing but then it blends so well with what I call the old world craftsmanship. We're building this home, it's out of wood, it's not like it's some new high tech material but the way that it performs is above and beyond really what any other wood home can do.
 Year after year, storm after storm, these were the homes that were left standing and
 people said, if I'm going to build in a hurricane zone, this is what I want.
 Our homes are exceptionally strong because we use materials that are very high quality.
 They're often designed for high wind zones and no high quality material you can't just
 go to the store and buy.
 Our home is panelized so we're pre-manufacturing sections of it in a factory and then shipping
 it out to you on the job site.
 Our round design is actually a self-supporting roof system so it doesn't have any interior
 load bearing walls which means that the inside can be laid out basically any way that you
 want.
 Total devastation.
 We lost part of the roof and most of the ceiling but I'm still alive, still here kicking.
 I took pictures of this place and the whole neighborhood the day before.
 We were all out here, all the neighbors, they just had their new roofs installed from the
 hail storm.
 Everybody was cleaning up, we were getting ready for the weekend of fun and then Harvey
 said okay well we're going to leave because most of those people are vacation people.
 They don't live here full time, not like us.
 Hurricane Harvey barreling into the Texas coastline.
 Storm surges are predicted to reach up to 12 feet.
 The city of Rockport, Texas is right in Harvey's path and is getting hit hard.
 I felt like this is a nuclear war had happened here and my neighbors had been bombed.
 It was heart and gut wrenching to see the damage that a lot of people have suffered
 through and their whole life is forever changed by this.
 Climate change is something that is hard to not think about when you see hurricane after
 hurricane after hurricane, the wildfires that have just hit California.
 It really makes you think about if I'm going to build a home, what is it going to be like
 20 years from now, 50 years from now, 100 years from now.
 I'm not just designing for today but I'm designing for generations into the future and what's
 it going to take to make sure that we resist those things.
 Having a lot that was half a block from the water, we thought we really need something
 that is hurricane resistant and this roundhouse concept they can't build as hurricane proof
 but when you look through the gallery of pictures, there sure are a lot of pictures as ours is
 now of the Dell Tech house standing tall while everything around it is shattered.
 I think resilience, passive survivability is the concept of building a home that can
 withstand all kinds of weather extremes is something that we have been really good at
 and I want us to keep improving in that direction.
 Obviously this round shape makes sense in a high wind environment and we're able to
 get a lot less pressure building up on that home just because of that design but how do
 we go above and beyond that, beyond just the shape, how do we engineer that to be even
 stronger and so you see this what we call radial engineering where it's like spokes
 on a wheel and the entire home is like this wheel that works together so the entire system
 is set up to resist those high winds.
 There really is nothing about what we do that is rocket science.
 It is a simple concept and we have really perfected it over the last 50 years in the
 way that everything fits together and works together and to me what's really special about
 the Dell Tech is there is this combination of science and high tech manufacturing but
 then it blends so well with what I call the old world craftsmanship.
 We're building this home, it's out of wood, it's not like it's some new high tech material
 but the way that it performs is above and beyond really what any other wood home can
 do.