Renovating Inner-City or Existing Buildings

In answering a number of questions we have had recently regarding retro-fitting or renovating existing buildings, YES!  We can do that.  For example we have provided R40 roof panels to inner-city redevelopment projects where the interior skin of the roof panels was an...

Start with the Building Envelope

I was talking with a LEED professional the other day and was glad to hear him say that when speaking with builders that talk about wanting to put PV panels on the roof, or digging up the front yard for a geo-thermal heating system, or solar thermal water heating, he...

More Extreme Weather – Tornadoes in NYC

This weekend we saw more extreme weather, this time spawning multiple tornadoes in New York City.  As this article states, tornadoes used to be a very rare event in the NYC area, but now not uncommon. Because of our superior strength building envelope, Eco-Panels has...

Affordable Housing? NO! Affordable Living!

I cringe when I see affordable housing developments going up using virtually the same building materials used in the 1960s.  We see the same cheap stick-built (wood or steel) methods of construction used in almost all parts of our country.  The builders have a pretty...