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Project Summary / Description:

Advance successful proof-of-concept, scale model of thin-shell concrete, durable, low-cost, low-Earth-impact, Earth-shelterable, small buildings to human-useful size --  for on-site manufacture for housing, shelter, school, clinic, and other GCC-induced severe weather survival needs. Design and build new tooling and several concrete forms sets from the new tooling. Construct, test, and demo several "home show" and test buildings buildings, as enabled by the new forms sets, for advanced architectural and engineering design, marketing, and prep for universal building code (UBC), finance, appraisal, insurance, and finance industries acceptance and embrace. Prepare for worldwide commercialization.

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How Project Affects Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions:

By both significant mitigation and adaptation:
>  Reduce embodied energy by greatly reducing the mass of concrete per units of the structure's enclosed volume and usable floor space, and by replacing portland cement with novel, GHG-emission-zero or -neutral cementitious materials in the structural concrete mortar;
>  Greatly reducing OPEX from heating & cooling and maintenance: super-insulated with internally-sprayed, continuous coat of closed-cell UR foam of any thickness
>  Greatly reducing property loss

Best Estimate of GHG Avoidance/Reduction of This Project (Tonnes CO2 Equivalent/Year):

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Impact on Underrepresented Groups:

All humans will benefit from access to housing and other small buildings that are low-cost, low-Earth-impact, Earth-sherterable, non-combustible, super-insulated, and so robust that they will endure GCC-driven severe weather, flooding, and seismic loads better than most rectangular-solid, stick-built structures.

Underrepresented groups generally occupy most of the aged, energy-inefficient housing and other small buildings. Since they have the most to gain from moving to the quasi-spherical, thin-shell concrete buildings decribed in this proposal, they will benefit more, sooner, than those clinging to obsolete, increasingly uninsurable, stick-built small buildings.

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Mission Statement:

Empower Earth Protection via RD&D to discover, commercialize, and globally proliferate novel technologies and systems to minimize and terminate anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; focusing now on quasi-spherical thin-shell concrete small buildings for robust, low-cost, low-Earth-impact, non-combustible, severe-weather-surviving, small buildings --  for housing, shelter, school, clinic, storage.