Structures USA (fka STUS)

[sojourner]

Victor Hugo wrote, 'No army on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.'

The housing shortage, especially in the poorer regions of the earth, in made more acute by the lack of native building materials. Consider Haiti. That nation has destroyed 90% of its original lush forest cover, mostly to make charcoal fuel. (As an aside, the denuding of the land guarantees severe flooding with heavy rains.) Traditional concrete housing is an alternative here but the price of materials is exorbitant.

Enter GigaCrete. Affordable, durable, easy-to-assemble housing can be created even in areas of the world deficient in ordinary building materials. Almost any dry waste material-- such as cardboard, paper, styrofoam, plastics and agricultural waste fibers from corn, wheat, rice, millet, sorghum and sugar-cane plants-- can be combined with the proprietary binder to create very strong, lightweight structural panels. The building panels are insurable, waterproof and fireproof. Neither will these non-toxic panels crack or shrink.

It would appear GigaCrete is idea whose time has come. ninjaturtle