About Safe Sizing
Our MiSSION
Safe Sizing™ was created in response to a simple but persistent problem: homes are typically built for a single moment in time, while the people who live in them do not stay the same.
As physical needs place new demands on the home — through aging in place, accessibility requirements, or special accommodative needs — homeowners are often forced into disruptive and avoidable modifications that could have been addressed earlier through better design decisions.
Drawing on more than thirty years of combined experience across residential construction and healthcare leadership, Safe Sizing™ aligns how homes are built with how people actually live. The design-first system preserves architectural aesthetics and cost expectations while embedding long-term utility, allowing homes to support independence as physical circumstances change.
Applicable to both new construction and existing homes, Safe Sizing™ delivers the greatest economic advantage when adaptability is planned during initial construction, while remaining fully effective when applied to existing homes to improve usability, accessibility, and long-term function without altering appearance or intent.
By addressing adaptability intentionally rather than reactively, Safe Sizing™ helps homeowners maintain choice, dignity, and everyday livability over time — supporting aging in place, accessibility, and independence without sacrificing design or affordability.
Our Team
Safe Sizing™ is led by a deliberately assembled, multidisciplinary team spanning residential construction, architecture, healthcare, real estate, and policy — unified by a shared focus on how homes actually function over time.
Our work brings together builders, designers, clinicians, and subject-matter experts who understand that housing decisions intersect with physical ability, long-term health, cost exposure, and everyday livability. This perspective allows us to design for independence and usability without increasing cost or altering intended aesthetics, while preserving architectural integrity.
The Safe Sizing™ system is informed by decades of hands-on experience across new construction and existing homes, supported by the analysis of tens of thousands of real-world data points spanning housing conditions, functional limitations, retrofit costs, healthcare utilization, and long-term outcomes. This analysis translates lived experience into repeatable, design-first guidance that can be applied proactively or retroactively.
Together, experience, disciplined design, and data-driven insight reduce preventable long-term costs for homeowners while easing downstream strain on public systems — aligning how homes are built with how people live, adapt, and remain independent over time.
The Reserve at Duckers Lake™, currently in the permitting phase in Frankfort, Kentucky, serves as the first purpose-built implementation of the Safe Sizing™ system, with homes anticipated to be available beginning spring 2026.
Our Standard
Safe Sizing™ is America’s Design-First Adaptability Standard™ — a patent-pending, integrated residential building system that aligns how homes are built with how people actually live over time.
Homes are typically designed for a single moment, while the people who live in them continue to change. As physical needs evolve — through aging in place, accessibility requirements, or special accommodative needs — homeowners are often forced into disruptive, costly modifications that could have been avoided through better decisions earlier in the process. Safe Sizing™ addresses this gap at the design and planning level.
By embedding adaptability intentionally rather than reactively, the standard preserves architectural aesthetics, maintains cost expectations, and does not alter the visual character of the home. What changes is not how the home looks, but how long it continues to work.
Applicable to both new construction and existing homes, Safe Sizing™ guides design, construction, and renovation decisions so everyday usability, accessibility, and long-term function are addressed from the beginning whenever possible — and integrated intelligently when applied to existing structures. While the greatest economic advantage is realized in new construction, the system is deliberately structured to improve outcomes across the full housing lifecycle.
When adaptability is planned this way, savings to homeowners and occupants are not marginal. They are routinely quantifiable in the tens of thousands of dollars over the life of a home, while also reducing downstream costs that would otherwise be absorbed by public systems.
Safe Sizing™ is supported by AI-driven analytical modeling that synthesizes tens of thousands of data points across residential construction, healthcare utilization, accessibility outcomes, and long-term living patterns. This analysis does not replace architects, builders, or designers — it informs them — translating real-world insight into repeatable, build-ready guidance without adding complexity.
What emerged from this work was consistent, measurable, and already visible in the market. Safe Sizing™ is the scalable result of listening closely, translating shared experience into a disciplined system, and applying experience, data, and design to a problem that long lacked a unified, build-ready answer.
Now, America has one.
HOW SAFE SIZING™ WORKS
The Standard
Analytical Support
Analytical Support
Safe Sizing™ is a design-first residential building standard that defines how homes are planned to remain functional as life changes. The standard establishes structural, dimensional, and circulation principles at the earliest design stage—before walls are framed, utilities are set, or costs are locked—so adaptability is built into the h
Safe Sizing™ is a design-first residential building standard that defines how homes are planned to remain functional as life changes. The standard establishes structural, dimensional, and circulation principles at the earliest design stage—before walls are framed, utilities are set, or costs are locked—so adaptability is built into the home rather than added later.
By addressing everyday usability, accessibility, and long-term function upfront, Safe Sizing™ allows homes to support aging in place, special accommodative needs, and changing physical abilities without altering aesthetics or increasing baseline construction costs. These principles apply equally to new construction and existing homes, though the economic efficiency is greatest when implemented during initial design.
In practice, the standard guides decisions across layout, clearances, transitions, and systems so future modifications are anticipated rather than reactive, preserving architectural integrity while reducing long-term disruption, risk, and expense.
Analytical Support
Analytical Support
Analytical Support
Safe Sizing™ is supported by an AI-driven analytical layer that evaluates design and construction decisions before they are built, not after they fail. Through XAiQ™ — America’s Variable Artificial Intelligence Quotient™ (\ˈzēk\ ‘Zeke’) — design inputs are assessed against real-world use conditions, lifecycle scenarios, and long-term fun
Safe Sizing™ is supported by an AI-driven analytical layer that evaluates design and construction decisions before they are built, not after they fail. Through XAiQ™ — America’s Variable Artificial Intelligence Quotient™ (\ˈzēk\ ‘Zeke’) — design inputs are assessed against real-world use conditions, lifecycle scenarios, and long-term functional outcomes.
This analytical support does not design homes. It tests decisions. Floor plans, circulation paths, structural dimensions, and system layouts are evaluated to confirm that Safe Sizing™ principles are being carried through drawings, specifications, and construction details without being eroded by value engineering or late-stage trade decisions.
By modeling how homes are actually used over time — including physical change, accessibility needs, and future adaptation — the system helps validate that usability, adaptability, and risk reduction remain intact from design through execution. The result is disciplined consistency: the standard performs as intended, not just as imagined.
Implementation
Analytical Support
Implementation
Safe Sizing™ is implemented by carrying design-first adaptability through the full build and renovation process, not leaving it to interpretation. PAD Ready™ (Precision Adaptive Design) translates the standard into coordinated plans, sections, specifications, and construction details so critical dimensions, clearances, and transitions ar
Safe Sizing™ is implemented by carrying design-first adaptability through the full build and renovation process, not leaving it to interpretation. PAD Ready™ (Precision Adaptive Design) translates the standard into coordinated plans, sections, specifications, and construction details so critical dimensions, clearances, and transitions are preserved from design through execution.
During construction, implementation focuses on protecting intent. Structural decisions, framing layouts, system placements, and finish transitions are coordinated so adaptability is not compromised by sequencing, trade overlap, or value engineering. This ensures that what was planned to support long-term usability is what actually gets built.
When applied to existing homes, implementation guides renovation decisions using the same principles—prioritizing interventions that improve usability, accessibility, and long-term function without altering the home’s character or aesthetics. In both new construction and retrofit contexts, Safe Sizing™ implementation ensures the standard survives contact with the jobsite and performs as intended over time.
Scaling the standard
Safe Sizing™ is a proprietary, patent-pending, design-first adaptability standard built to scale without dilution.
The proprietary Safe Sizing™ standard is intentionally structured to integrate seamlessly with qualified contractors who become PAD-Certified, ensuring consistent execution without reliance on bespoke products or ad-hoc field interpretation. This allows the standard to scale across new construction and existing homes while preserving architectural integrity, aesthetics, and cost discipline.
Scalability is achieved through PAD Ready™, which applies Precision Adaptive Design™ to translate Safe Sizing™ principles into coordinated, build-ready plans, specifications, and construction guidance. PAD Ready™ focuses on the structural, spatial, and dimensional decisions that most influence long-term usability, accessibility, and adaptability—addressing them intentionally at the design stage rather than deferring them to future modification.
As part of this process, Safe Sizing™ incorporates functional health-related risk evaluation—not to practice medicine, but to recognize that widely understood metrics such as mobility, balance, strength, vision, cognition, and endurance introduce predictable risks when interacting with the built environment. These risk relationships can be mitigated—and in some cases meaningfully reduced—through intentional architectural decisions, allowing homes to better support safety, independence, and long-term livability without altering appearance or increasing baseline construction cost.
To protect consistency as projects move from design to construction, Safe Sizing™ is reinforced by AI-driven analytical validation through XAiQ™, which evaluates design and construction decisions against real-world use conditions, lifecycle scenarios, and long-term performance outcomes—helping preserve design intent across builders, regions, and project types.
Implementation occurs through PAD-Certified builders and renovation professionals operating within defined design parameters and construction guidelines. This certification framework ensures that Precision Adaptive Design™ principles are executed accurately in the field, while remaining adaptable to site conditions, homeowner needs, and existing structures.
The result is a repeatable, scalable system—one that aligns design, analysis, and execution—ensuring that what is planned for long-term independence is precisely what gets built.