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Keep Up with Concrete
Rick Clayton Rick Clayton

Keep Up with Concrete

At GREEN PERMANENT STRUCTURES - GPS, we embrace concrete construction as a means to create resilient, sustainable, and beautiful structures. Our expert team harnesses the immense potential of concrete to design and construct buildings that stand as symbols of endurance, grace, and sustainability.

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Wood Prices Making You Sad (or Mad)?
JC Friedel JC Friedel

Wood Prices Making You Sad (or Mad)?

If wood prices are making it tough or too expensive to build, here are 6 reasons to choose Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) for your next building project.

ICF vs Wood: 6 Reasons to Choose ICF - Posted by Kody Horvey on Build Meets World.

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What is Net Zero?
JC Friedel JC Friedel

What is Net Zero?

Net Zero is the next evolutionary step towards building off-the-grid structures no longer reliant on electrical energy produced through carbon-based products.

Construction industry is moving in this direction as hydrocarbon production and energy costs will likely continue going up higher and higher in the years ahead for the end-building owner.

ICF technology is the easiest way to go Net Zero — using integrated wind, solar, geothermal, passive-design, off-grid technologies.

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Severe Summer Storms Unleash Waters Fury
JC Friedel JC Friedel

Severe Summer Storms Unleash Waters Fury

Relentless winds and rain pummeled large swaths of the South on Tuesday, causing tornadoes, sparking a flash flood emergency in Alabama and damaging homes from Texas to Virginia. Jackson, Mississippi is dealing with damaged homes and downed trees as of May 5th.

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Proof is in the pudding
JC Friedel JC Friedel

Proof is in the pudding

ICF technology offers best solution to resist the destructive nature of wildfires and fires in general.

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ICF and Steel Are the Winners
Rick Clayton Rick Clayton

ICF and Steel Are the Winners

There’s an underlying battle between wood (organic) versus steel/concrete (inorganic) building materials, and the winner is clear to us.

For us the most convincing data is the pictures. Although, it’s sad it takes devastating natural disasters to point to the clear winner.

Here’s a display of photo images showing ICF/Steel homes built next to wood homes. You decide — who’s the winner?

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