Climate Tech Building Systems — prepared for Precision Industrial Capital Partners

THE FILM

Mirror Engineer and Climate Tech Building Systems, in four and a half minutes. The software is shown on a SAMPLE job.

SAMPLE Every job and price in the software is a SAMPLE. No real job, no real prices.

EVERYTHING, IN THIS ONE LINK

The business plan

Both companies, the sequence, the two tests, the numbers with their sources, and the risks stated plainly. Confidential.

Read the plan

Download the PDF

Mirror Engineer

The software site: what it does, how it works in five steps, and where it stands.

Open the Mirror Engineer site

ClimateBuilt

The hardware site: Climate-Ties, Climate-Deck, precast and tilt-up, the two patents, and the status.

Open the ClimateBuilt site

WHAT IT IS

Plastic hardware that sets inside the concrete forms a crew already owns. Every picture in this section is a render from the design drawings — none of it has been manufactured.

Walls — Climate-Ties

Ties that ride the aluminum and steel forming systems already on the job and cast into the wall. A serrated spike sticks out and takes whatever head the job needs: a flat T-plate, a channel a metal stud threads onto, a saddle for an AAC or treated-lumber stud, a masonry tie.

Render of the metal-stud head tie — Metal-stud head

Render of the wall in section — The wall in section: ties cast in, studs threaded on

Floors and roofs — Climate-Deck

A foam form, hot-wire cut from stock billet (no molds), that stays in place as the insulation after the pour. It carries its own rebar hardware: rebar tree, chair, vertical tie, pin wedge. Three form families: CD-18, CD-24, and CD-24CF for commercial tilt-up roofs.

Render of the foam form under a finished deck — The form stays under the finished deck

Precast and tilt-up

Saddle ties carry the rebar in panels for tilt walls. The rebar chairs are drawn to stand up when the panel tilts.

Render of the precast saddle tie — Precast saddle tie

Render of ties through a tilt panel — Ties through a tilt panel

Render of walls, decks and roofs poured flat — Walls, decks and roofs poured flat and craned into place

PROTECTED

Inventor: Alma Jessop. Both held by ICF Building Systems LLC, Alma's company.

U.S. Patent 11,933,057 B2

Walls (Climate-Ties). Granted March 19, 2024.

U.S. Patent 12,188,232 B2

Floors and roofs (Climate-Deck). Granted January 7, 2025.

WHERE IT STANDS

Done

Patented.
Engineered and drawn.

Not yet

Not manufactured, not for sale.
On the walls, two things are not yet tested: the plastics and the tie pull strength.

The finish

U-Stucco, the finish in the wall design, is tested and is a product. It has not yet been used on a job.

Who gets it

At the NECA show in Las Vegas, people with a concrete background understood it on sight. That is the buyer: precast plants and tilt-up contractors.

What we are looking for

A manufacturing partner to tool it, test the plastics and the tie pull strength, and make it, or to license it.

The sister company

MIRROR ENGINEER

Estimating software for general contractors, owned by the contractor. A technology business, from the same founder. The software comes first; its sales fund the first hardware run.

1Takeoff
2Bid Review
3Calculators
4Bid Compare
5Total it

One file. It opens in the browser; nothing uploads.
Walked end to end on a SAMPLE job, on a computer.
Beta. Pre-revenue.

SUPPLIERS

What the software does today, on the SAMPLE job:

A calculator cut list, and the order by stock length.
An order list printed for the yard, packaged by phase.
A detail sheet the yard can quote from.

Today the contractor prints or copies the order. No electronic send exists.

THE PLAN — NOT LIVE

The plan: the calculators, free to use, bring the contractor in; every estimate ends in an order for a supplier.

The Rake calculator: a rake wall drawn to scale, and its stud cut list ordered by stock length — The Rake calculator on its SAMPLE inputs: the wall drawn to scale, and the stud cut list by stock length.

BIM

Done: Revit models of the CTBS wall, floor, and foundation systems that produce quantity takeoffs, forming schedules, and rebar schedules.
Not yet: the automated path that takes a 2D plan set, produces a 3D model, and converts it to the CTBS system with quantities.

Footing forms and foundation forms modeled in Revit — Footing forms and foundation forms, modeled in Revit.

Foundation material and form work quantity takeoffs from the same Revit model — Quantity takeoffs out of the same model: foundation material and form work. Prices removed.

WHO IS BEHIND BOTH

Alma Jessop. 30+ years in construction:

ran a framing company at 20, then became a licensed general contractor and a Parade of Homes award winner;
helped develop earlier estimating software and demoed it at the NAHB International Builders' Show for years;
today a lead estimator, and he built Mirror Engineer;
inventor on both patents above; co-inventor of a footing forming system.

Hardware for poured, precast and tilt-up concrete