Tornado devastates Moore OK

May 20, 2013
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Tornado devastates Moore OK

As many of you know; An F5 tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma today leaving death and devastation in its path. Many people were injured and from what we know so far, at least 51 are confirmed killed, including MANY elementary school children. The first responders are desperately digging through the rubble trying to find...
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“A Home is a Home”… NOT.

May 20, 2013
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“A Home is a Home”… NOT.

Okay, between traveling and “breaking” trucks (I broke another one last night… Oy)… I’m up to my neck in alligators. So I’m going to reach into the mailbag and pull out another gem; So… fasten your safety belts,  extinguish all smoking material and bring your seats to an upright position. We’re about to take...
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Building starts with THINKING…

May 13, 2013
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Building starts with THINKING…

Build smart, build green. It makes sense that many who want to build an ISBU home want to make that home as eco-friendly as they possibly can. After all, most of us are reducing our footprints, so we might as well make that home as green and efficient as possible, right? What can you...
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Parking Garage Palaces? What?

May 10, 2013
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Parking Garage Palaces? What?

I recently received an email from a guy who buys up old industrial and warehouse districts, in Australia. He sent me an email and a “sample” photo of a single (standalone) house he saw and he wondered if we could take ISBUs and then turn them into rows of low income duplexes, to blend...
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I don’t like DRYWALL!

May 9, 2013
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I don’t like DRYWALL!

As we toil against a workload that is as challenging as “Spring’s Arrival” in Montana… I’m going to reach into the mailbag and see what’s shakin’ in ISBU-land… Here we go; Dear Guys, We’re building our ISBU cabin in the woods. We’ve set our 20′ ISBUs on concrete pilings we cast from scrap sonotubes,...
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