Links & Resources

Ma­ter­i­als

In­su­la­tion

• Aero­gel
• Icynene
• Knauf Eco­batts

Fer­ro­cement

am-cor inc.

In­vent­or An­gus W. Mac­don­ald's works on Fer­ro­cement:

• Ferro-Ce­ment Coat­ings on Pan­el­ized Light­weight Steel Frame Struc­tures, Ferro-7 Sev­enth In­ter­na­tion­al Sym­posi­um on Fer­ro­cement and Thin Re­in­forced Ce­ment Com­pos­ites, 2001. M. A. Mansur and K. C. G. Ong, ed­it­ors, Na­tion­al Uni­versity of Singa­pore, Singa­pore, 415-420
  • AWM FERRO 7 PAPER.pdf [pdf]
  • AWM FERRO 7 SLIDESHOW.pdf [pdf]
• Ar­chi­tec­tur­al De­tails to De­vel­op Af­ford­able Dis­aster Res­ist­ant Struc­tures Us­ing Fer­ro­cement Tech­no­logy, Ferro-8 Eighth In­ter­na­tion­al Sym­posi­um on Fer­ro­cement and Thin Re­in­forced Ce­ment Com­pos­ites, 2006
  • AWM FERRO 8 PAPER.pdf [pdf]
  • AWM FERRO 8 SLIDESHOW.pdf [pdf]

• Steel Build­ing Kits - In­ter­view with An­gus W. Mac­don­ald

Ex­tern­al

Re­sources from around the web:

• Prac­tic­al Fer­ro­cement Classes at the Fer­ro­cement Edu­ca­tion­al Net­work - Many thanks to Dir­ect­or Paul Sarn­strom for his ef­forts over the years!
• Fer­ro­cement Dis­cus­sion For­ums at the FEN
• Wiki­pe­dia's art­icle on Fer­ro­cement, and Fer­ro­cement in­vent­or Joseph-Louis Lam­bot
• Very in­form­a­tion­al pa­per on Fer­ro­cement by L. Robles-Aus­triaco
• Fer­ro­cement: Ap­plic­a­tions in De­vel­op­ing Coun­tries by the Na­tion­al Academy Of Sci­ences (in­cludes some Fer­ro­cement his­tory)
• Gar­rett Con­nelly's in­form­at­ive site on Fer­ro­cement

De­sign­ers

USA

• Mac­don­ald Ar­chi­tec­ture & Tech­no­logy - Provides pro­ject design, pro­ject man­age­ment, and con­struc­tion su­per­vi­sion for all build­ing types, with an em­phas­is on sus­tain­able build­ing, green ma­ter­i­als, en­ergy ef­fi­ciency and en­vir­on­ment­ally re­spons­ible design.

Con­tract­ors & Pro­ject Man­agers

USA

• J. Hall Homes, Inc., VA - Dis­tinct­ive single-fam­ily homes in the Fre­d­er­icks­burg Area of Vir­gin­ia, bal­an­cing in­nov­a­tion and prac­tic­al­ity to cre­ate homes of strik­ing beauty and ex­cep­tion­al value, in­cor­por­at­ing mod­ern con­struc­tion tech­niques, ma­ter­i­als, and build­ing sys­tems for high qual­ity, en­ergy ef­fi­cient homes.
• Ridge Line Build­ers, Inc., VA - Small, fam­ily owned and op­er­ated busi­ness that has served Fauquier, VA and sur­round­ing counties for ten years, bring­ing hon­esty, af­ford­ab­il­ity and qual­ity to every pro­ject.
• Opitz Con­struc­tion, VA
• R.W. Mur­ray Co., VA
• Cot­ter Ry­an Gen­er­al Con­tract­ors, FL

Ja­maica

• Da­ley's Con­struc­tion, Sandy Bay; tel: 876 953 5151