Reframe Systems is thrilled to share that we have been selected as a winner of the 2025 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability! We’re proud to be the construction & design category winner in this year’s cohort of changemakers. Following are some reflections on what makes this honor so meaningful at this moment in our journey.
At Reframe, we’re not just reinventing how homes are built, we’re working to make high-performance, climate-resilient housing attainable for everyone. This week, that mission was honored with the 2025 Ivory Prize for Construction and Design, which recognized our AI-powered microfactories as a solution to expanding access to affordable, resilient housing across the U.S.
Today, our country faces a housing shortage of over seven million units and construction costs continue to rise. This award recognizes our conviction that solving the housing crisis requires more than just building faster. It requires building smarter.
For our CEO, Vikas Enti, this work is personal. After a career helping scale automation at Amazon, becoming a father to twin girls, born prematurely and with a tough start in the NICU, reframed his outlook.
“I realized the climate crisis isn’t theoretical; it’s a real risk to our kids’ futures. Reframe’s targets to achieve zero emissions are directly aligned with my own daughters’ transition to adulthood. The only way to meet those goals is to deploy existing climate solutions affordably and at scale, and housing is one of the most impactful places to start.”
- Vikas Enti, CEO & Co-Founder of Reframe Systems
The Reframe Model: Smarter Factories, Faster Homes
Our approach starts with microfactories: small-footprint, fast-to-deploy factories that can be set up anywhere in 100 days or less. Powered by proprietary software and robotics, these factories localize production and eliminate many of the traditional bottlenecks that drive up costs: long supply chains, fragmented labor, and on-site inefficiencies.
Each home we produce is airtight, energy-efficient, and wildfire-resilient, built to the latest code requirements, and designed to adapt to local zoning, climate, and community needs. With these efficiencies, we’re already seeing cost reductions of up to 35% and build times cut in half – major milestones in a sector that’s barely changed in 50 years.
Redefining Who Builds
Reframe is also changing who gets to build. By digitizing construction workflows, using software to generate instructions, and designing with assembly in mind, we’ve opened doors to a new generation of builders, including many who’ve never worked in the trades. From high school grads to career changers, our factory teams are learning valuable skills in plumbing, HVAC, and framing, all in a safe, climate-controlled environment.
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What’s Next: From New England to California
In the months ahead, Reframe will continue expanding operations across New England, where our microfactories are already serving new multifamily projects, including two triple-deckers in Somerville, Massachusetts, that exemplify what it looks like to build smarter, faster, and more affordably.
We’re also bringing that same approach to communities impacted by wildfires in Southern California. Starting this summer, Reframe will begin delivering homes to the Altadena area, where rebuilding efforts have exposed just how urgently we need new models of housing delivery. Our goal is not only to replace what was lost, but also to demonstrate how climate-resilient homes can be delivered at pre-disaster costs and built in weeks, not months. Our commitment to building resilient, quality housing at a price affordable to all will help the community’s full return to this special place, and provide the foundation to accelerate our growth in California.
The Ivory Prize celebrates bold, practical solutions that move the needle on affordability. We’re honored to be recognized, and we’re just getting started.
