PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) – Aboda Design Inc. is opening a prefabricated construction factory in Pueblo to help with the housing shortage and affordable housing issue Colorado and the nation are facing.

Principal and Chief Business Development Officer for Aboda Design Darin Zaruba tells 11 News, “Colorado is a part of the whole nationwide housing crisis.”

Zaruba continues saying, “Nationwide it’s estimated between 5 million and 7 million homes that we need, housing units, so Colorado I don’t know the exact number but we’re a big part of that.”

Zaruba also says, “And especially in places like the mountains, where attainable housing is really an issue, workforce housing in places like the ski resorts and things like that are really almost at a crisis level right now. They can’t afford to live up there so sometimes they commute an hour, hour and a half into work and back. So places like Aspen, Vale and even Telluride and places like that I mean it’s just really constrained right now.”

Now with Aboda opening their factory in Pueblo, not only will they help with the housing crisis in our area, they’ll also create more jobs.

Aboda is a prefabricated construction company which works with builders and developers on designs for houses, hotels and apartment complexes. Once they have a design, Aboda moves into production and builds modular boxes based on the design. Then, they transport the box to the site the builder or developer wants their project located.

With the factory in Pueblo, General Manager of Aboda Designs Jonathan Dallin tells 11 News they will create between 60 and 80 full-time jobs in their first year and as they continue to grow and take on more projects, they can fill up to 120 positions.

Dallin says, “There is such a crisis of attainable housing in Pueblo, even some of our own employees have experienced that in the past and which really helps drive our passion for helping and solving the problem.”

Dallin also tells 11 News, “I think it will open the door for a lot of new, innovative housing projects from different builders and manufacturers and we are very happy to be a part of it.”

In addition to helping with the housing crisis and creating jobs, Dallin says, “The large difference between on-site and modular construction is we have a controlled environment, we have continuous inspections from our third-party inspector that you see also in the state of Colorado and we’re delivering high-quality products as opposed to offsite where you have constant inspections, weather delays… so I believe that’s a competitive advantage that we have.”

However, something Zaruba wants people to know is, “Every factory in the off-site industry really has ultimately constraints on how much output they can do.”

Zaruba continues saying, “This factory can do about I think 800 or 900 modules per year, so if every house is an average of two modules, that’s you know 400 to 500, 450 homes per year that this factory can produce housing units.”

Dallin also mentions Aboda’s dedication to helping their clients, saying, “A client would bring a project to us. We start digging into it and we would find things that would help their budget, but also make the project more quality more efficient, more sustainable.”

Zaruba emphasizes the same point saying, “We’ve basically got a four-step process that takes them all the way through construction but in the design phase we work with them either on their designs, they’re very heavily involved with our designers, their Architects, we all get together and really put something out that’s a modular optimized product.”

Zaruba also says, “In other words, we don’t have a catalog per se that it’s you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit. We actually are able to sit down and work with builders and developers on their designs from start to finish if they need it.”

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