Featured Member:
Handcrafted Structures
Gold Members:
Sons Development & Green Building Supplies
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Lightweight Concrete ConstructionConcrete is a plastic medium and has incredible potential for creating fluid structural forms. Lightweight Concrete has been used in the United States for over 50 years. Although its compressive strength is not as great as ordinary concrete, it weathers as well and also offers better fire resistance and high insulative value.
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International Thin Shell Assoc
Domes have graced the world's architectural landscape since the earliest days of recorded history. From the classic facade of the Pantheon in ancient Rome to the futuristic renditions of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic shapes, domes have always intrigued and inspired. The modern incarnation of a dome is a thin-shell concrete structure. Through the innovations and efforts of the people listed here and others, methods have been developed to make domes stronger, less expensive, and more efficient than ever before. While they are far easier to build than old structures like the Pantheon, and are smoother and more versatile than a geodesic, today's thin-shell domes and structures owe a tip of the cap to each of these historical influences.
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