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SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: Laurie C. Fisher is invited to speak at the Resilient City Expo 2026 We're proud to share that PHNX Founder and CEO Laurie C. Fisher will be speaking at the Resilient City Expo 2026 — an international expo focused on resilience, disaster recovery, and the future of the built environment — taking place October 14–15, 2026 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Featured Presentation The PHNX Forever Home: From Fire Resistance to True R

If you've been to a rebuild fair lately, you know the feeling. Table after table of builders, each one telling you they're different, their homes are safer, their price is fair. Everyone has a brochure. Everyone has a pitch. And you walk away with a stack of cards and no idea who to believe. We've been thinking about that problem for a while. And we decided the most useful thing we could do for fire survivors, for anyone rebuilding in California, wasn't another brochure. It w

An introduction from Laurie Fisher, Architect, Founder & CEO Street view of The Esther - one of our new PHNX Portfolio Homes™ Collection designs I founded PHNX after the 2017 Tubbs Fire, having spent two years working with five Santa Rosa families through their rebuilds. I realized quickly why mass-market builders weren’t there rebuilding alongside them. Every fire-loss property is different, different slopes, soils, setbacks, orientations, and that variability makes their mo

PHNX Development was recently featured on Episode 2 of The Altadena Rebuild Exchange , a new podcast created to help wildfire survivors navigate the rebuilding process with real, practical guidance from industry experts. Hosted by Altadena native and Eaton Fire survivor Kevork Douzadjian, the series brings together voices across architecture, engineering and construction to support homeowners rebuilding after the January 2025 wildfires. Kevork lost both his home and his belov

As Women in Construction Week wraps up this Saturday, I've been thinking about what it means to me. I could talk about the numbers (they are bad; women are roughly 14% of the construction workforce, and a fraction of that in the trades and leadership roles), but I'd rather talk about why that gap is so detrimental to an industry that desperately needs new thinking. Here's what I know after 25 years in architecture and development: innovation doesn't happen where everyone is c

We have some exciting news to share — and we’re incredibly proud of this one. The Yosemite Lake House in Groveland — a project many of you have followed from the ground up — has just received two international honors at the 2026 ICF Builder Awards , a global competition recognizing innovation and excellence in resilient construction. PHNX3 in Yosemite was honored with: 1st Runner Up – Small Residential People’s Choice Award The awards were presented at the World of Concr