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BUILDING A BETTER WORLD |
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| Environmentally Responsible |
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As a Partner in the Energy
Star® Insulation Program, we are working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy to educate homeowners about the benefits of
building homes with PolySteel. It is the very best building material you can use for the
exterior walls of your new home or commercial building.
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• No harmful chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are used to
manufacture PolySteel forms. They do not contain HCFC,
formaldehyde, asbestos or fiberglass.
• PolySteel directly reduces the use of lumber, helping to
save our valuable forests.
• Reducing heating and cooling costs by 50%-80%, PolySteel
homes save our natural resources.
• Working in partnership with concrete, one of earth's
most abundant materials, PolySteel forms are environmentally
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Saving the Earth
Most household energy comes from the burning of fossil fuels -- like coal, oil and natural
gas -- which contributes to air pollution. By properly insulating your home, you are
not only saving household energy, but preventing emissions of harmful greenhouse gases
like carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. If all U.S. residential
buildings were upgraded with insulation at levels in the latest Model Energy Code, 250
billion pounds of CO2 emissions per year would be prevented, which is
equivalent to removing 25 million cars from the road! |
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| In our continuing efforts to
evaluate the thermal performance of our products, we had a Dynamic Thermal Analysis
performed on the PolySteel Wall System by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Building
Technology Center in 1998. This analysis showed that the effective R-Value of a
Polysteel wall ranges from R-26 to R-44 when the effects of thermal mass and air
infiltration are included. By comparison, a 2" x 6" wood-frame wall with
R-19 fiberglass insulation achieves an effective R-Value of R-13.7 in the same type of
study. As
a testament to this extraordinary performance, Mr. Richard Rue, president of Energy Wise
Systems, Inc., a nationally recognized home energy authority, stated in a March 12, 1999
letter that numerous PolySteel homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas were being
air-conditioned for less than $50 a month, while comparable
"stick-built/fiberglass-insulated homes were averaging $250 to $350 per
month." In addition to Mr. Rue's experience, there was also an independent
survey conducted to evaluate the performance of 29 houses constructed with various ICF
products around the country compared to their wood-framed counterparts. Among its
other results, this study showed me that the four PolySteel homes included in the study
exhibited no significant statistical differences from other ICF products in providing
tremendous energy savings to their homeowners (Ref. PCA Booklet No. RP119.OIT by Dr.
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