History of Ecohousing
updated 12 Apr 2011
The buildings can be one, two or three stories high. As Northern Australia is in a Cyclone Belt, the buildings have undergone severe cyclone testings at James Cook University’s Cyclone Testing Station in Townsville, North Queensland. The building system is certified to meet the Darwin Cyclonic wind loading using the Low-High-Low pressure sequence of 10,360 load cycles over a 7 hour period.
This is now an ABCB “Australian Building Codes Board” mandatory testing procedure for Buildings in Cyclonic areas. Ecohousing undertook this test regime in 2001 and passed the full test successfully. You can read more about this, and view the ABCB Cyclonic requirements here.
The building system is also patented in various countries and has been refined to make it simple and quick to build.
These applications proved very successful in presenting what could
be achieved in combating heat and cold using polyurethane and the huge potential
it had to grow. Ecohousing gained very valuable experience and understanding of
polyurethane during the early years.
In 1987 this experience and understanding was drawn on to form a new type of revolutionary polyurethane building product and system. Complete presses for making fully insulated structural panels were engineered and patents were taken out.
Since then Ecohousing has continued to improve our products and is still continually improving them to make an industry leading, structural, fully insulted building.
In 1987 this experience and understanding was drawn on to form a new type of revolutionary polyurethane building product and system. Complete presses for making fully insulated structural panels were engineered and patents were taken out.
Since then Ecohousing has continued to improve our products and is still continually improving them to make an industry leading, structural, fully insulted building.
Ecohousing was founded in 1978. Ecohousing first started using
polyurethane for insulating buildings on mining sites; this steadily branched to
projects that included both commercial and residential applications. Commercial
applications ranged from insulating barns and stables for livestock, proving a
success in reducing livestock heat stress, to insulating office blocks.
Polyurethane also proved very successful in insulating in the residential
sector.
Tonny Bergqvist (CEO)
Cyclone testing roof panel
Ecohousing Factory Plant