About Concrete Dreams in 3D

 

Concrete Dreams in 3D Benefit LLC was born from lived experience, construction knowledge, caregiving, and a deep love for veterans.

The company is majority disabled combat veteran-owned. Majority ownership is held by Morris Howard, a disabled Vietnam combat veteran whose life, service, resilience, and sacrifices helped inspire the mission behind the company.

Founder Sarah Hartzog is both the daughter and caregiver of Morris Howard, who has lived with PTSD and TBI for much of his life. Growing up in a military family and later becoming a caregiver gave Sarah firsthand experience with the struggles many veterans face after service, including isolation, disability, suicidal ideation, housing instability, and the difficulty of navigating support systems.

At the same time, Sarah spent over a decade working in concrete construction while her brother, Paul Howard, built more than 26 years of hands-on experience in the industry. Together, they spent countless hours discussing how advanced construction methods, automation, and rapid-build methodologies inspired by Department of Defense construction systems could be used to help reduce veteran homelessness at scale.

Those conversations became Concrete Dreams in 3D Benefit LLC.

The company’s mission is to help reduce veteran homelessness through rapid, scalable, healing-centered construction using advanced building methods such as tilt-up concrete construction, prefabrication, robotics-assisted construction, AI systems, ferrocement, and 3D concrete printing.

Concrete Dreams in 3D Benefit LLC believes the future of housing should work with people — not break them physically.

By integrating robotics, automation, and AI into construction workflows, the company aims to create meaningful opportunities for veterans of all abilities, including transitioning veterans, disabled veterans, and homeless veterans. Instead of relying solely on brute-force labor, these systems are intended to help skilled workers contribute safely, efficiently, and sustainably.

The vision is deeply personal.

After years of caregiving, construction experience, family hardship, and the loss of Sarah’s stepson, the mission became clear: veterans deserve more than temporary shelter. They deserve beautiful communities, meaningful work, dignity, healing, and a place where they are never left behind.

At the center of that vision is Sarah’s father — the family’s hero — whose belief in “leave no man or woman behind” continues to guide the mission behind Concrete Dreams in 3D.

The company is rooted in the belief that those who served our country deserve communities built with compassion, innovation, respect, opportunity, and heart.