Concrete Home Building Council - 04/21/2005 (Plain Text Version)CHBC Chairman View Graphical Version | Subscribe
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Editor... In this issue: Thomas Edison's Vision of Concrete HomesCarbonCast™ Lifetime Housing, a vision of Thomas Edison's viable all concrete home, becomes a reality 100 years after conception. Picture of Thomas Edison next to his concrete model home — circa.1910.The traditional looking homes below are anything but. They are field assembled in any weather from ICPs (R-19 insulated concrete panels) reinforced with C-GRID, a novel reinforcement made using carbon and epoxy. This is the same high strength material used in the aerospace industry — seven times stronger than steel by weight and non-corrosive. One is hard-pressed to believe these homes are not made of wood, but every exterior and structural component is either concrete or composite that comes with a lifetime warranty. Rendering of CarbonCast Habitat homes in Yonkers.Inside is a different story; a clear span space surrounded by fastener friendly© predrilled studs on standard centers, open cavity floor joists for simple MEP & HVAC runs, composite framed rough openings placed where you want them — everything else ready for traditional field fit out and finishing using your choices for interior partitions, fixtures, flooring, wall board and wood trim using the same tools you already have. Some of the outstanding features of these homes:
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