“Roofs First” Demo Highlighted in the Denver Post

TSC Global’s demonstration hypar roof at the company headquarters in Denver was featured on the front page of the Denver Post’s “Denver and the West” section November 14, 2010. Nuba Water Project Board member, George Tuto, is shown standing atop the 16 X 16 foot hypar roof built in 2010 by staff and volunteers supporting TSC Global’s vision of building “Roofs for the World”. TSC Global uses the “roofs first” method to rapidly build shelter and other community space such as markets, clinics and schools. “Roofs first” means erecting the hypar roof on its own posts before building the walls. Click Link to Read Full Article: Article

TSC Global plans to use several different wall systems at the model site  demonstrating that any wall system can be used to complement their roofs: mud, adobe, rock, cement block or stabilized soil blocks. The company believes that stabilized soil blocks, also known as Compressed Earth Blocks, are the perfect partner for its hypar roof system. This month more than 600 compressed earth blocks were manufactured in nearby Golden, CO using  Vermeer Company’s Dynabloc block machine and will be used for the TSC Hypar model.

Compressed Earth Block