Americans could feel safer at home with a newly developed construction material.
Alternative Construction Technologies’ 3-inch thick ACTech Panel combines strength with energy efficiency to make a building material that can withstand hurricane strength winds. It also reduces heating and cooling costs by 40 to 50%. The 26 gauge structural insulated panels conform to ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials). Even with a two-foot steel covering, the panels weigh less than lumber at just three pounds per square feet.
The most durable materials in construction are essential for new homes, as many Americans fear climate change. The wood-framed homes are too fragile to withstand strong winds and too flammable to be set ablaze. The fire-retardant additive is used to modify the structural panels’ insulating polyurethane. They are then baked, foamed and adhered in place. The panels are resistant to decay, fungus and moisture, unlike wood. Class-1 urethane acts as a termite deterrent, which ensures structural longevity.
The ACTech Panel System was able to pass hurricane projectile testing and meet or exceed the stringent wind, projectile, and uplift codes set forth by the 2006 Florida Building Code. The panels’ ability to reduce energy bills is what makes them so special in this day and age of sustainability. The panels are not only saving labor costs and reducing construction time but they also reduce monthly cooling and heating energy bills by between 40 and 50 percent, and sometimes more.
Alternative Construction Technologies (OTCBB-ACCY), with its headquarters in Florida and manufacturing facility in Tennessee, has patent this construction technology to be used in the production and maintenance of high-quality buildings for commercial, residential and industrial purposes.
For more information, please visit www.ACTechPanel.comOr call 1-800-859-88813
