Steady State builds custom homes and renovations.
Steady from start to finish.
A home, a budget, and a vision for something new — entrusted to me for a short window.
That’s what a client hands over at the start of every project, and I take that seriously. The honest numbers, the weekly reports, and the standard the house is built to — all of it follows from treating what you have given me as something to look after and manage responsibly.
A construction project usually marks a transition — a move, a marriage, a baby, an emptying house. Those are meaningful moments, and they’re often stressful ones. The building process tends to add to the stress rather than absorb it. I started this company to be the steady part: clear expectations, consistent follow-through, and a calm presence in a stretch of someone’s life that probably has enough going on already.
A project manager’s discipline. A builder’s commitment to craft.
Luc, the principal of Steady State, previously served as lead project manager for a custom home builder and remodeler in Ventura, working on projects from Hollister Ranch to Thousand Oaks and everywhere in between. He learned quickly that it is the seat where a project is won or lost — building the budgets and schedules, then working hand in hand with the superintendent, the architect, and the client to execute the project and keep everyone informed and aligned along the way.
He held that seat, and occasionally the site superintendent role as well, on over twenty projects — kitchens, additions, ADUs, whole-home remodels, and rebuilds.
Before construction he studied economics and business at Westmont College in Montecito and spent three years in real estate finance. He left finance to build something tangible. The financial training and the understanding of real estate have stuck with him, and it is why your project will be managed as meticulously on paper as it is built on site.
He also holds a Construction Management Certificate from UCLA, and both Passive House credentials — the CPHC on the design and consulting side, the CPHT on the building side. He seeks to implement Passive House building science principles on every project, to give clients the highest level of thermal comfort, health and longevity.
- Role
- Principal & General Contractor
- Previously
- Lead project manager, custom home builder in Ventura
- Projects
- 20+ — kitchens to new builds
- Degree
- BA Economics & Business, Westmont College
- Training
- Construction Management Certificate, UCLA
- Passive House
- CPHC & CPHT
- License
- CSLB #1153031
- Service area
- Santa Barbara & Ventura County
I’m Luc Germann, the principal of Steady State Construction. My wife Haylee and I live in midtown Ventura, raising our own little construction crew — Declan (4), Finn (2), Torren (1), and a fourth boy due in March. So far they’re better at demolition than finish work.
I named this company Steady State Construction for the calm, level-headed presence I seek to bring to the all-too-often chaotic and stressful process of construction.
A few months after starting the company, I took a tour of a Passive House in Morro Bay. Standing in that house, I experienced one of those rare moments in my life that seemed to whisper, “this is what you’re meant to do.”
Several things I’d been holding separately in my mind all seemed to come together at once — the building science, the craft and beauty of custom home building, and the management discipline it takes to pull it off. It was in that moment that the vision for this company really began to take shape.
The term steady state is what Passive House and high-performance building is all about. Creating a home that is built well and uses Passive House principles leads to steady-state surface temperatures, humidity, and health and comfort for its occupants. I’d chosen the name for what it meant about how I’d treat people. Realizing it also described how I’d build felt like confirmation this company was going to do something special.
Steady State builds to the best standard available rather than the minimum the code allows.
What gets built here outlives all of us. That’s worth investing in.
