5 Innovative BUILDING SYSTEMS for your house #8

Hi and welcome to CGS Tech. Building technologies continuously improve, and choosing the right construction system for your new home can be difficult. In this video, we're going to explore some innovative building systems that you might not be familiar with but are worth checking out. This is our 8th video on building systems, so be sure to check out our home building playlist as well. Advanced Earthen Construction Technologies, or AECT out of Texas, is a company making building equipment and providing support for construction projects using compressed earth blocks. As the name suggests, this way of building utilizes earth as a primary building material. A compressed earth block, or CEB, is a building material made primarily from damp soil compressed at high pressure to form compact blocks. A binder material like cement or lime is often added to stabilize the blocks. A final recipe for the blocks is up to each customer, but the company provides support services to determine if the soil type is alright and advises on the mixture. In addition to selling equipment, AECT also produces and sells their own Texaterra earth blocks, available for shipping in the USA. CEBs can be used to build just about anything. Housing, commercial buildings, barns, driveways, ovens, perimeter walls, and so on. Company's various CEB machines produce anywhere from 240 to 480 compressed earth blocks per hour. Mass-produced to high technical standards and offer a neutral, environmentally friendly, and inexpensive method of building. Blocks are stacked together with a layer of mortar in between. Rebars can be included, and conduits are simply cut from the blocks. Portable self-contained CEB machines allow builders to produce compressed earth blocks on-site, reducing cost and carbon footprint for both residential and commercial construction. The company has been involved in projects in more than 50 countries worldwide. Through the work of AECT, compressed earth blocks have become a viable building material. Just Biofiber from Alberta, Canada develops and manufactures load-bearing structural hempcrete building blocks for commercial and residential construction. Hempcrete is a composite material made with industrial hemp herds, lime, and water and comes either in spray-applied or solid block versions. What makes Just Biofiber hempcrete blocks different is the internal structure frame that interlocks when stacked, giving it much higher compressive strength, allowing for multi-storey buildings. The internal frame structure is made of a biocomposite resin material that doesn't deform with heat and doesn't emit volatile organic compounds. Just Biofiber blocks have good fire-resistive and insulative properties. They also have a high thermal mass, can regulate temperature and humidity, are breathable, and resist mold and pests due to high lime content, which is highly alkaline. The building system comprises of blocks, channels for windows and doors, starter strip, top of wall caps, glue, and mortar to construct anything from small shops to multi-floor buildings. The construction is quick and simple, thus lowering labor costs and time to completion. Interlocking design can be overlapped and turned 90 degrees for corners and intersecting walls. On-site, blocks are cut using standard tools and fastened in place using stainless or ceramic coated steel parts to avoid corrosion. Conduit holes run through every block for electrical. Walls can be simply finished with stucco finish on the exterior and plaster on the interior. Just Biofiber was founded in 2014 with a vision to bring a sustainable building system to the of living, lower costs, and be waste-free and easy to construct. Ogle from the UK has a new type of building system made from recycled plastic. The company takes plastic waste, grinds it into granules, and turns it into their patented profiled building system that can be used to build anything from single-room buildings such as garden rooms and offices to internal walls or a flood defense system. It also has the capability to be developed into a multi-room, multi-story building system. Ogle is designed to be easy to assemble and dismantle, fully modular and interchangeable, and pack away to one-fifth of its built size when stored or in transit. The engineered profiles assemble into double-skin wall and fit together to create buildings of different shapes and sizes and possess a level of thermal and sound performance. The interior of the assembled profiles can be hollow and subsequently filled, thereby fortifying the structure and giving it better thermal properties if needed. Ogle is designed to build life-size watertight walls without the need for any connectors or adhesive. The product can make corners, fit windows and doors, can be filled with everything from concrete blocks to batteries, and has the ability to run cables and pipes unobstructed through the walls, all of which can be finished off with attachable roofing and flooring. One of Ogle's first products for sale is a smaller backyard structure called TaskPod, meant as a home office. It is completely made of Ogle profiles, from walls, roof, and floor. It comes in solo, duo, and studio size and starts at about 6,000 British pounds. According to the company, the thermoplastic material is less flammable than wood and has a fire-retardant coating as well. The company aims to make a building product that is simple, fast, light, reusable, and made from recycled materials. Recently launched JoeBlocks, also known as SciBlock and Structural Insulated Blocks from the UK, is a block building system made of hemp and bonded with polyurethane foam board, sandwiched between an inner and outer skin. Depending on the application, an additional layer is added, such as an internal mag-ply structural board, an insulating hemp resin core, and an external mag-ply fireboard or multi-finish board. The system was developed by a company called Roman Products, specializing in historic buildings and building technology. Together with a local university and partially funded by an innovation fund from the UK, the aim was to devise a building system that is easy and quick to build while being better and cheaper than other products on the market. Each block is carbon neutral, highly insulated to building regulation standards, zero waste, fire-resistant, breathable, and completely thermally broken. These lightweight blocks can build a stronghouse of any size over several floors. It's also a completely dry system, requiring no mortar, with pegs and screws used to Air tightness is achieved by vapor-open polyurethane foam applied at the joints. The company claims that Joe blocks can be assembled by a single person quickly and simply, and often no foundation is required, just a level slab. It is also an eco-friendly product, since hemp locks up CO2 in its lifecycle, more than offsetting other carbon emissions in the manufacture. According to the company, the system is totally decoupled, with no thermal bridging to be found. Consequently, U-values and acoustic performance are superior, and its structural performance surpasses the industry standards. Expanded clay blocks, going by different names depending on the company making it, most commonly leca or liopore blocks, are solid construction blocks made of an expanded clay aggregate, which is formed by firing natural mining clay at high temperature in a rotary kiln, resulting in hard clay pellets, that are then formed into blocks by adding concrete. They are lighter and less dense compared to standard concrete masonry blocks, but still possess high compressive strength and excellent thermal and acoustic properties. They are easy to nail, drill and shape, and do not get plaster cracks on them, due to a strong bonding property with regular cement mortar. The expanded clay blocks are used in both internal and external walls, where load-bearing is simply more restricted, or as infill blocks in beam and block flooring. Non-bound expanded clay pellets are used for other purposes as well, like laying the foundation for construction, building roads and walls, or developing drainage solutions. Expanded clay blocks form an effective barrier against cold, wind and weather. The combination of expanded clay pellets and cement creates an internal concrete structure that acts not only as a thermal insulator, but also stores heat. Whether used in new construction or renovation sector, detached houses or apartment blocks, expanded clay aggregate blocks can respond to different architectural demands in the structural engineering sector. Thanks for watching. Let us know what you think down in the comments. Please hit the like button and subscribe for more if you enjoyed this video. Until next time!