A company is building homes in the Inland Empire that can withstand some of the most massive earthquakes and wildfires. It’s an idea built from a thousand years of Japanese culture and decades of design research.
The Kobe earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995, killed over 6,000 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings. Over 20% of the offices in Kobe’s central business district were rendered unusable, and over half the houses in that area could no longer be lived in.
From that devastation came the inspiration for stronger, safer homes that are now making their way to Southern California…