"Design and Construction of an Innovative Panel System for Affordable, Safe, Energy Efficient Housing"
Dr. Colaco discussed the development of Foam Based Single Family Housing Systems. Conventional homes are built with wood, using "stick-built" ballroom framing. But several builders are using foam to build homes. Dr. Colaco presents results from wind and seismic tests, and calculations on energy savings on the FAS/Clean home.

Voice of America: Common Foam May Be Answer to Housing and Energy Crunches
The world is facing an energy crisis and the price for a barrel of oil has now reached an all-time high. A lot of research is being done to find new ways to save energy. We found a man in the southern U.S. state of Alabama who may have part of the answer; he's building houses made of Styrofoam and he says his houses can cut energy bills by 75 percent.

Discovery Channel
The Discovery Channel shows how Hoot Haddock has developed just the right materials to stand up to the intense, ground shaking vibrations of an earthquake house. Watch the video.

Common foam may be answer to housing, energy Crunches
The world is facing an energy crisis and the price for a barrel of oil has now reached an all-time high. A lot of research is being done to find new ways to save energy. We found a man in the southern U.S. state of Alabama who may have part of the answer; he's building houses made of Styrofoam and he says his houses can cut energy bills by 75 percent. VOA's Craig Fitzpatrick went to Alabama to look at these houses. Ted Landphair narrates his story.

Forbes Magazine: Foam Home
Designers looking to make cheap, earthquake-proof homes in war-torn Afghanistan are turning to the stuff of coffee cups and packing peanuts.

BBC: Polystyrene homes planned for Afghans
Many people in Afghanistan have lost everything, including their own houses, during the country's long decades of war.

Christian Science Monitor: Earthquake antidote- foam
Polystyrene - used to make disposable foam cups - turns out to be a great way to build earthquake-resistant homes.

Cincinati Inquirer: Home passes quake test
A huge laboratory at Trentec - an engineering company that designs, fabricates, installs and tests special doors for nuclear containment airlocks at power plants - used its hydraulic earthquake simulator to test a new material that could be used in earthquake-proof homes in Afghanistan and other third-world countries.