Residential Foam Homes
Residential structures are the most varied and complex of all, because of the wide variety of requirements of our clients. Depending on where you live, your house may be exposed to heavy snow and earthquakes (Alaska), or extreme heat and high winds (Florida). What you can count on is that our buildings are all designed with every contingency in mind---wind, fire, earthquake, high winds, floods, you name it.
As far as style goes, there is no style we can't do, from Ultra Contemporary to Santa Fe style to Victorian. Once the home is built, the only way you'll know it's a Therma Save house is because of the hugely reduced heating and cooling costs, and the eco- friendly footprint of the structure, in terms of emissions (zero) and the absolutely clean indoor air.
Polystyrene homes planned for Afghans
Many people in Afghanistan have lost everything, including their own houses, during the country's long decades of war.
Aftermath of 1998 quake in northern Afghanistan Earthquakes in Afghanistan have cost many their homes Rebuilding usually means putting up the same mud-brick structures used for centuries.
But those homes become death-traps during the frequent earthquakes that hit the area. Now, some American scientists, engineers and architects think they have a better way to rebuild Afghanistan, using polystyrene.
The FAS set a challenge for the scientific community - design a house that is affordable, energy efficient, and earthquake-resistant.
That meant finding a cheap, lightweight material that could easily be adapted to the Afghan building style.
They found the answer in Florence, Alabama, in the shape of H H "Hoot" Haddock.
