a company touting GREEN building sells huge sheets of styrofoam with a cladding of chicken wire(basically) on both sides, once assembled ( it clicks together at corners, you could invent your own version), it's then shotcreted with cement. there is a huge industry around this method of using cement and foam..houses go up fast, and much cheepers than stickbuilt.
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Charmaine
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
the huge 4x8 panels are so light the workers get blown off the roof in windy weather , like holding a 'kite'
at the ITSA (a ferrocement group who use cement and mesh) gathering in 2004 & 2005 we saw several companies with the same type idea of sandwich mesh with foam.
also waste bubblewrap was rolled up and flat sheets are glued to both sides to make panels..etc. but none of these ideas involves papercrete.
I am going to upload this book to my site so anyone can access it free. PRESCRIPTIVEMETHOD-InsulatedFormsBOOK.pdf
200 pages by HUD Book: Prescriptive method of insulating concrete forms in residential construction. 1.6 MB size, very thorough, if you want ideas on applying these design to papercrete.
Mike Mcain was also big on pouring huge 'gang panels" like 6 of them with huge sheets of ply in-between, boxed in with heavy ply, with drain screen on bottom.
took a while to cure dry
gives me a few hours to get this book uploaded to my site
Charmaine
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
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