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SABS Rapid Response Building Systems (Presented by The Bergman Companies)

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StyroHome News 2008 Edition

Yet another version of the StyroHome News

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The Mono Tech Building System

The Pasadena EcoHouse

http://www.thepasadenaecohouse.com

Aidmer Wall Material

 

 

RESARO WARM FOUNDATION

Resaro’s Building and Energy System meets the demands for minimizing the Carbon Dioxide discharge during the house’s erecting and length of life.
The Resaro System’s main components are the Resaro Elements and the Resaro Energy System with the Overpressure Foundation and the Intermediate Floor Support, which in all gives a house entirely without cold bridges in the foundation and in the outer walls.
The Resaro Element is a lightweight, strong concrete element, consisting of a thin slab with truss beams in an innovative truss design, intended for self supporting joists. Spans up to eight metres, simplifies the erecting and facilitate flexible planning and offers a simple, easily accessible and cheap installation space.

http://resaro.se/FOTOGrim/FOTOGrim.eng/fotobott.ht

Green Collar Jobs

The story on the greening of the American job market, with CNBC's Steve Liesman

The Story of Stuff

INSUL-DECK, LLC Tilt-Deck

http://www.insul-deck.org/tilt-up.htm

Home Front Homes

 http://www.homefronthomes.com/buy_custom.html

AMVIC Building System

http://www.amvicsystem.com/assets/Manual/May1/AmDeck-FINAL-LR.pdf

http://www.amvicsystem.com/amdeckmanual.aspx

StyroFoam Dome Kits

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Global Building Systems, Inc.

The STEP TECH System™

 

http://www.gbsi-step.com/

News From BuildingGreen

 

http://www.buildinggreen.com/

kama Energy Efficient Building Systems, Inc.

 

http://www.kama-sip.com/

http://www.kama-eebs.com/

Rocky Mountain Institute

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established in 1982 by resource analysts L. Hunter Lovins and Amory B. Lovins. What began as a small group of colleagues focusing on energy policy has since grown into a broad-based institution with approximately eighty full-time staff, an annual budget of nearly $12 million (over half of it earned through programmatic enterprise), and a global reach.

RMI is a not-for-profit “think and do tank” that works with individuals and organizations of every imaginable kind to help them use energy and resources efficiently while being ever-better stewards of the environment.

Rocky Mountain Institute's
Home Energy Briefs
Practical Guides Describing What the Average Homeowner
can do to Save Energy

http://www.rmi.org/

Stryofoam Pleasure Domes Decreed

SCIENCE WATCH

Styrofoam Pleasure
Domes Decreed

Until now housing materials in Japan have consisted generally of wood, steel, and concrete. Now, however, the housing company Japan Dome House has developed a domed house made of polystyrene foam (Styrofoam).
Although plastic materials such as Styrofoam have been used in panels for indoor refrigerated coolers, exterior insulation, and as interior and exterior nonstructural elements, none had been approved as load-bearing structural materials for buildings.
After five years of negotiations with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan Dome House received ministry approval in 2004 and began selling its Styrofoam building material. The company's product is the first structural Styrofoam material approved in Japan.
The standard exterior dimensions of the dome house are 3.3 meters tall and seven meters in diameter. The walls are 20 centimeters thick and the entire structure only weighs 900 kilograms. Total floor space is equivalent to 36 m². Both interior and exterior walls are designed to be fire-resistant and to prevent the "sick building" phenomenon. Around 10 different structural elements and adhesives are used in assembling the homes and several of the homes can be put up in a single day without the use of heavy machinery. The cost of a dome house (materials) is only 2.45 million yen (24,000 dollars).
In tests, the homes have withstood three meters of snow and winds of 45 meters per hour. The homes can be easily recycled and do not release toxic dioxin gas even if incinerated. Japan Dome House anticipates use of the structures as country homes, detached rooms, restaurants, bars, and shops.
Currently, 400 dome houses are being used as lodging facilities at Aso Farm Land, a nature-experience theme park operated by the Japan Dome House group at the foot of Aso-san mountain in Kumamoto-ken prefecture.
Trademark rights and patent rights for this building method have been acquired in the United States. Orders from abroad are coming in. The company is also fielding inquiries about the dome house's use as disaster relief structures.
For more information, http://www.i-domehouse.com/

SIPschool

www.sipschool.org.

Designing the Future

In a new interview series, NEWSWEEK talks to a leading ecological architect whose goal is nothing less than eliminating waste and pollution.

Michael Lewis for Newsweek

Newsweek

May 16 issue - Imagine buildings that generate more energy than they consume and factories whose waste water is clean enough to drink. William McDonough has accomplished these tasks and more. Architect, industrial designer and founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry in Charlottesville, Va., he's not your traditional environmentalist. Others may expend their energy fighting for stricter environmental regulations and repeating the mantra "reduce, reuse, recycle." McDonough's vision for the future includes factories so safe they need no regulation, and novel, safe materials that can be totally reprocessed into new goods, so there's no reason to scale back consumption (or lose jobs). In short, he wants to overhaul the Industrial Revolution—which would sound crazy if he weren't working with Fortune 500 companies and the government of China to make it happen. The recipient of two U.S. presidential honors and the National Design Award, McDonough is the former dean of architecture at the University of Virginia and co-chair of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development. He spoke in New York recently with NEWSWEEK's Anne Underwood.

What are you doing in China?
The China Housing Industry Association has the responsibility for building housing for 400 million people in the next 12 years. We're working with them to design seven new cities. We're identifying building materials of the future, such as a new polystyrene from BASF [with no noxious chemicals]. It can be used to build walls that are strong, lightweight and superinsulating. The building can be heated and cooled for next to nothing. And it's silent. If there are 13 people in the apartment upstairs, you won't hear them.

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