Yes, like our SIPS, this stuff has been around for decades, we studied most available systems world-wide before commencing development of our system. Our initial thought was the system being predominantly for remote builds, where having a crane on site can be quite an expensive exercise. So our panels are light enough to be lifted and positioned by just two guys.
For example, we transported a public hall flat-packed 24 hours drive north from the factory on a road train, the cost of accompanying this with a crane would blow the budget (48-hour round trip).
But the market and takeup of the system is spreading, such that we’re looking to open factories closer to urban areas, or akin to the latest factory where demand from a flood affected community needs a rapid recovery solution.
That’s a insane factory setup! And to think, we can accommodate our system in as little as 300-500 square metres. There are quite a few external wall manufacturers now in Australia, though I’m struggling to see the absorbance of $ rates for commercial space allowing them to stay affloat!
It’s a topic that I have investigated a lot, on of my thesis was about cheap housing using modules, I designed a basic one that required just one module, but the beauty of it is that you can expand your home in the future if you have more money and the family has grown, I spent weeks trying to have a s many options as possible but there are still a lot that I didn’t explore, and that’s the beauty of it, there are hundreds or even thousands of variables, it solved a problem in my region where people buys just a field and with the few money left they build something small, some years later they increase the size of it but without any logical criteria, and you can see monsters with 4 floors that are 100% unsafe. Actually one of my goals is to create a company that makes affordable modular homes but still beautiful, improving the city landscape and generating some nvidia so the neighborhood entire moves from traditional ugly homes to something a lot faster to build with the flexibility to expand in different ways their homes without making horrible houses with different materials and more expensive.
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Francisco, I had to check your profile to see where you are!
It sounds crazy, but the costs of this type of construction (at least in Australia), ends up being slightly more expensive than our traditional forms, though that’s not one of the issues we’re trying to overcome!
When you say you spent weeks trying as many options as possible, is this in regards to housing models or panel types?
Here’s a video prepared by the South Australian Government and an article of their experience when working with our product.
The video (over 13 days ex weekend) means 3 guys putting up the walls for 3 x 150sqm homes in 11 days, and this was an instructional job educating the builder on the installation, meaning, as we’d call it in Australia, “more Yap Yap less Tap Tap”!
The article supports many of our beliefs that this system overcomes issues born by our traditional building methods. Though given the project is in a remote edge of a desert town and not subject to flooding and cyclones, they haven’t covered all the inherant benefits.
