Future Surroundings Gulf Coast welcomes you and wants to help you join our amazing coastal lifestyle!  Let us help you design and build your future surroundings home with Speed, Strength, and Quality!  We have been in business in new york since 1984 and on the panhandle of florida since 2007 building custom hybrid beach homes that will stand up to the wind, sun, and salt, so you can just enjoy the beach!

The experience was amazing.

System Built Hybrid Homes Have Better Quality Control Than Site Built Homes

We use system built building systems to construct your home. Our homes are designed and built in a climate controlled environment that protects the entire structure during the build. This means harmful weather never touches the inside of the home.

System Built Hybrid Homes Go Through More Inspections Than Site Built Homes

While a 100% site-built home may have one or two inspections during the build, a Future Surroundings home goes through 300 quality inspections and third party inspections to ensure the highest level of quality through the entire construction process.

System Built Hybrid Homes Are Built Stronger and Provide More Confidence

Because our  homes need to be moved to the site, they are engineered to a higher standard of strength than stick-built homes. Pieces are nailed/screwed and glued to add strength to the structure and make our homes more durable against the adverse effects of Mother Nature.

System Built Hybrid Homes Are Energy Efficient And Resource Conscious

In a typical 2,000 square foot site-built home there are 8,000 pounds of waste that end up in a landfill. Building custom system built homes in a factory setting greatly reduces waste because materials and resources are recycled and reused. Materials are not used on only one project, additional lumber and supplies can be saved and reused in the next home.

The system built home itself is also more energy efficient. The attention to detail and strength reduces gaps and drafts that can occur; drywall panels are nailed and glued during the build. The increase in quality construction of our home transfers into heating and cooling savings for the homeowner. Many times system built homes can require a smaller furnace or air-conditioning unit than a comparable site built home.

System built Homes Offer Design Flexibility

Home builders and home owners have the same ability to create a custom home with system built construction. Select from our large number of  home plans and then design the custom style you want. Hardwood floors to quartz counter tops and metal roofs, you can choose from thousands of upscale personalized features to fit your budget and taste.

The home is designed and built in a climate controlled environment. This means harmful weather never touches the inside of your home. Your system built  home will go through 300 quality inspections and third party inspections to ensure the highest level of quality, ask a stick builder if their homes can say that??

System Built Homes Speed of Construction

System Built homes are delivered up to 90% complete and built in one-third the time of site built homes. Construction is seldom delayed due to weather, subcontractor no-shows or missing material. With careful planning you can be living in your new custom Hybrid home in a matter of weeks. And although your house is completed quickly, quality materials and careful attention to detail are built into every home.

Hybrid Homes Are Energy Efficient

Our system built hybrid homes are highly engineered using the latest construction technology. All homes are designed to be energy efficient, which will save you money on bills every month. Energy efficient appliances are also available.  All of our homes are green built as well, which sets us a side from stick builders on the beach!

Design Flexibility Of System Built Hybrid Homes

A wide variety of  home plans are available to choose from. We offer mainly beach homes, from one to three story high. Many options are also available that will help customize your home to your own personal tastes. Whether you are looking for a home from 1,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet, we can meet your needs.

For those who desire to enlarge their home, an array of system built home additions has been designed to fit your existing home. Our remodeling additions range from bedrooms, family rooms, kitchens, garages, sun rooms and office additions or anything you can dream up.

System Built Hybrid Home Cost Advantages

Because our homes are constructed faster, costs are controlled and kept at a minimum which enables us to pass along a savings to you. With our many floor plans and options to choose from, you will be able to find something that fits your budget.

Our homes qualify for all mortgage programs. The same mortgage rules and appraisal regulations apply to purchasing a Future Surroundings system built hybrid home as to a site-built home.

I find myself constantly having to explain to prospective customers why system built hybrid homes are superior to site-built (or “stick-built”) homes, so I’ve compiled a “Top 10″ reasons, Letterman style, for you:

10. It’s state-of-the-art in home building
For centuries (literally), human beings have built their shelters the old-fashioned way, one board (stud) at a time. In the past two decades, the system built industry has taken giant leaps forward in both focus and capability to the point where all of our plants are able to produce high end Custom homes. Whereas many traditional production builders are still stuck with their old-world ways of individually framing the same structure by hand, over and over again on different lots, the system built industry has left their former one-design-fits-all approach and created the means to take any design and build it in pieces in a factory, to be assembled into a custom home in the field. The former Achilles heel of the modular industry-the inability to customize their product offerings-is gone, and they are cranking out solid, custom homes by the dozens. In an age where we’re all used to Googling a product, paying for it on the web, and receiving it in a few days, it’s fitting that the system built industry can provide the speed and quality we all expect.

9. You wouldn’t want your car built in your driveway, why build your house that way?
Check out a stick-built job site. Better yet, check it out in the rain. See how much mud is caked onto the sub-floor of the home, how wet the lumber gets, and notice the extremes in temperatures and weather conditions workers have to contend with while building in that manner. System Built homes are built in climate-controlled plants, where workers are comfortable and do similar tasks every day. They are also supervised by the same supervisors every day, and are monitored by quality control managers both from the company they work for, and third-party inspectors. Workers in the field, on the other hand, have very little oversight, and it’s the builder’s superintendent who must single handedly provide supervision and quality control for each phase of construction. Even banks know that the quality of system built homes is on-par or better than stick-built homes, which is why they do not differentiate between the two for financing construction loans.

8. Shorter, more predictable time line
While you’re visiting that stick-built home in the rain, consider the effect on a construction time line the weather can have. The system built process allows much of the uncontrollable forces to be mitigated because the home goes from foundation to 90% complete in one day. While a stick-built home might drag through different rain, snow, wind, and heat cycles, with all the associated delays and wear-and-tear on people and materials, the system built home is built in about 3 weeks in the factory, where the production schedule is virtually unalterable.

7. Built stronger
Structures built on-site are built platform-style, where the ceiling structure of one level is also the floor structure for the level above it. Because system built homes must be transported and placed by a crane onto the foundation, they are built as six-sided structures (that’s why they’re also referred to as “boxes” in the industry). The resulting home is then a product of stacked boxes, which is stronger and more stable than a platform-style structure. This explains how system built homes come from the factory with plumbing, electrical, drywall, and even cabinets and tile complete! It also explains why the resulting structures are stronger: they are built to much higher standards than site-built structures.

6. Reliable Quality Control
Quality Control (QC) is the way you are sure your home is going to be built well. The nicest granite, most rare Brazilian flooring, and most beautiful interior decoration cannot rectify mistakes made during the construction process. The only way homes are built to exacting standards every time is by having a strong QC system in place, and with site-built homes, that responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the builder’s site supervisor (typically one person). System Built homes, by contrast, are built in factory settings by skilled workers who have the same managers overseeing them day in and day out. These managers constantly perform quality control checks as homes are being built, and beyond the QC they do, each plant is inspected by third party inspectors on an on-going basis. Beyond the inspections in the plant, the units also undergo inspections in the field once they are set to ensure the connections are made correctly between units and to the foundation. But local inspectors are not inspecting for quality, only for building code compliance, so it is important to understand the builder’s QC process if you want your home built well. With system built, you are sure to have many more people checking the quality of your home before you move in.

5. More pre-construction planning, fewer surprises
Any builder who has ever built a true Custom home, one that has never been built before, knows that inevitably some details of the plan end up “not working” well in the field. The reason for that is that the Architect or Engineer who draws the plans typically is not a builder (and the builder is not an Architect or Engineer), so when the theoretical world collides with the practical world, things can go awry. With the system built process, this does not happen because the plans are given a great deal more scrutiny before construction begins by both the builder and the plant managers-they have no choice. Builders who use the system built process are motivated to scrutinize plans much more closely than they would in a stick-build process because their crutch of “figuring it out in the field” is not available. They know that what appears on the plans will be built at the factory, whether or not it is the best way. For the system built factory, they invest a lot of time and effort to ensure that they think through each plan so problems in production are averted. This coming-together of builder and architect/engineer is what makes the Custom part of Custom System built run much more smoothly than it does with stick-built custom homes.

4. You care about the planet, right?
Compared to stick-building, system built construction creates WAY LESS landfill trash, because the factories that produce them get better lumber (fewer rejects), waste less during framing (reuse scraps), and some even use the bits they can’t reuse as fuel to heat the factories! Most stick-built homes produce over 4 dumpster loads of debris, and a great deal of it is just plain wasted material. If you don’t believe me, just look inside a dumpster the next time a framing crew is busy at a job site near you. It’s very hard to get framing crews who are paid for labor only to care about the materials they waste because the builder pays for that, not them. I’ve seen framers make 2′ blocks out of 10′ long 2×4′s when their dumpster was full of cast-off lumber. It’s a real problem.

3. ENERGY STAR® – it’s not just for appliances anymore
We’ve all seen the ENERGY STAR logo on appliances, but what does it mean, and how does it apply to home building? In order for a home to bear the ENERGY STAR logo and certification, it must pass a series of inspections to prove that it was built to certain tolerances, AND performs well. The certification ultimately tells you that the home consumes 15% less energy than a home built to today’s building code. This is a third-party inspection process that takes place during construction, and just prior to move-in, where the home itself and the HVAC ducts are all pressure-tested to determine the energy losses. Many of our homes are so well put together that they virtually don’t need to alter any of their processes to attain an ENERGY STAR rating. In fact, the losses that do occur in typical system built homes occur more often in the HVAC systems, which are usually done after the home is set. The ENERGY STAR logo, and the various other Green certifications available, should make you confident that your home will outperform homes built by other builders.

2. More bang for your buck
Let’s face it, everyone likes a bargain, and system built homes are right up there as bargains go. Because our homes are produced in a facility that buys materials in mass quantities, and the labor rate in the rural areas where our plants are is much lower than in major metropolitan areas, they tend to be cheaper as compared to a home built to the same specifications in the field. Custom System Built homes will be cheaper than Custom one-off homes built in the field if the finishes are equal as a general rule. That doesn’t mean that system built homes are always cheaper, because there are cheaper ways of building a home. As is typical with most products, you get what you pay for, and all things being equal, a system built home will typically deliver higher performance than a stick-built home of the same price, giving you the proverbial more-bang-for-your-buck.

1. It just makes sense
When all things are considered, the system built hybrid process just makes sense. If quality, speed, performance, and cost are all better with system built homes, why would anyone choose to build the old-fashioned way?

Factory Built Home Materials are Green and High Quality.  In-plant construction quality is invariably superior to that built on site. Parts cut with a hand-held circular saw at a job site are not as precise as those cut with a $10,000 radial arm saw or $100,000 component cutter in a factory. Factory fastening methods are demonstrably superior because they use pneumatic tools driving fasteners to precise depths – no under-driving and no shiners. What’s more, factory inspections cover every construction detail from floor framing to final paint. Trained factory inspectors or independent third party inspectors perform more than one-dozen unannounced inspections per house. The local building inspectors may only perform three or four announced inspections on the typical site built project and some times none at all.   By building inside a factory, we  protect all building materials from the weather. Wet materials would be too warped or bent to fit into our precise jigs for wall panel and truss construction. In many on-site building locations green lumber and building materials exposed to the weather are built into the home resulting in warped walls, ceilings and mold issues.

System Built Homes are Stronger than Conventional (Stick-Built) Homes.  Our home unit uses the strongest of all construction methods based on the 2×6 platform framing system. System Built  home units are over-built providing rigidity during transport to the site. Additional structural elements are incorporated to strengthen the units as they are lifted by a crane from the carriers and placed on the foundation. Only System Built construction is sturdy enough to withstand such forces equivalent to that of a healthy earthquake.

System Built homes are easier to finance because they have a positive track record and the bank understands the houses are finished much faster, which makes for less risk.

When the homeowner selects a system built home, with some variations, chances are the local banker has seen it before and knows the value. Bankers value the fact that system built homes are well insulated and like the simplicity of the construction process compared to on-site construction.

System Built  Homes are Built Quickly.  From the time you place your order, even when the factory is hopping busy, you can get most plans delivered to your site in four weeks or less. You can move into it within 30-60 days later depending on size. The average site built home takes 9-18  months to complete.

System Built  homes are built in factories benefiting from the assembly line production process. The factories purchase large quantities of lumber, sheet rock, carpet, paint, and other building supplies. As a result, they pay less for the materials they use. Labor is used with maximum efficiency as skilled craftsman move between workstations on the factory floor.

Peace of Mind Buying a System Built  home gives you peace of mind – you don’t have to worry about:

• The “I need more money” line. The home owner’s worst nightmare – the job’s half finished and your builder tells you he or she is over budget and needs more money. Factory-built houses come at a guaranteed price, without cost overruns.
• The vanishing builder. Everyone knows someone who’s had this problem. You don’t want an unfinished house slowly rotting away in the rain. When you buy system built, you get your finished house product ready for installation.
• The pre-soaked house. Maybe you like your jeans pre-washed, but you don’t want your house to come that way! A site-built house, open to the rain, can cause your wood to warp or swell. System Built  houses are built in controlled environments under the factory roof and are shipped in weather-proofed wrapping.
• The unexpected un-inspected house. How do you know the quality you’re getting with a site-built house? System Built  homes are thoroughly inspected before they leave the factory. A quality control process provides 100% assurance that your home has been inspected for code compliance and quality workmanship. In-plant inspectors in cooperation with independent inspection agencies inspect the home on behalf of your state and local government.

Resale Value From the outside, your home may look like any other house, but after all those years, quality shows through. System Built homes are precision built at the factory and they’re built to last. Your home will require less maintenance and better withstand the effects of age and weather. When you’re ready to sell your home, you’ll be glad it’s been System Built.

Structurally Sound in Dangerous Weather
System Built construction technology employs methods of construction that include glue-nailed sheathing and decking with redundant framing members. These methods make your home a safer place to hang your flip flops due to our hurricane prone coast line.  System Built  homes are built to survive nature’s onslaught.