What is more Durable than a Home?

By David Bates
Why build a house out of polyurethane foam when we can make houses out of natural materials like mud, wood and straw? As a general contractor and a HERS energy rater, I became interested in structurally insulated panels (SIPs) because of the high R-value of polyurethane foam and it’s inherent ability to create [...]

Solargon’s for Youth Camps

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Solargons at Youth Camp:
Fun and Practical Group Housing
Your Boy Scout troop needs a den where everyone can get together, work on projects, share successes, and practice their skills before trying them on for size in the real world. Or perhaps your church group would like a big meeting area, open and airy, so [...]

What the “Green Collar” Economy Means for You

By Lori Bongiorno

The economic stimulus plan approved by the House allocates over $100 billion for green projects. While there is sure to be political back and forth in the coming days, one thing is certain, no matter what the ultimate outcome: We’re going to be hearing a lot more about “green collar” jobs.
So, what exactly [...]

Green Building Trends

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In 2005, green building was a small, burgeoning market, approximately 2% of both nonresidential (commercial and institutional) and residential construction, valued at a total $10 billion–$3 billion for nonresidential and $7 billion for nonresidential. Since that time, green building has expanded rapidly due to a number of factors such as growing [...]

Solargon’s and SIPS keep out the Heat in Hot Climates

ICS SIPs and Solargon uses the best insulation available: high R-value, injected, rigid, closed-cell polyurethane.  It serves to totally eliminate four of the six mechanisms of heat transfer (convection, air intrusion, air infiltration, and moisture accumulation), and significantly reduces the other two (conduction and radiation).  Each of these are detailed in our brief article “Mechanisms [...]

Green Building in the Face of the Economic Downturn

What’s happening to Green Building?
In the face of the home downtown green building keeps accelerating.  Green homes are the best marketing vehicles for home builders. There are many factors pushing green building forward.
Jerry Yudelson of Yudelson Associates the leading green building consulting firm (http://www.greenbuildconsult. com) describes how green building may thrive in the face of [...]

A Better Mobile Classroom

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A NEW MOBILE CLASSROOM
Local Company’s Innovative Product In Use At Davie High
By Jackie Seabolt - Teacher
Josh Jenkins’ students listen intently as he reads a chapter from the literary classic Gilgamesh. Pictures of history’s greatest writers hang on newly painted walls and large exposed wooden beams give the room a “medieval, Gothic feel”, according [...]

Humanitarian Building Projects with Solargon Structures

Much of this website is dedicated to the myriad ways that Solargons can serve as residential, commercial and/or recreational buildings. For 99% of the companies out there, that would be sufficient. But Solargons aren’t just ordinary buildings. And we like to think we’re not just ordinary people. See, we have a lot of hopes and [...]

“R” Fairy Tale The Myth of Insulation Values

“R” Fairy Tale
The Myth of Insulation Values
By David B. South

One of the fairy tales of our time is the “R-value.” The “R value” is touted to the American consumer to the point where it has taken a “chiseled in stone” status. The saddest part of the fairy tale is the R-value by itself is a [...]

Green Building, Help The Earth and Everyone Profits

“We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.”
- Leif Johansson

GREEN BUILDING…
EVERYONE PROFITS!

It’s true. There are no losers with building green. Developers and owners of Green Buildings are realizing increased net operating income, lower operating costs, faster lease-up [...]

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