Jun 26 2008
PCBC Announces Coolest Products
Every year 600 or more exhibitors gather at the PCBC in San Francisco to showcase their homebuilding wares. More than 25,000 attendees including contractors, developers, architects and manufacturers also go there to see what’s new and take advantage of seminars and networking opportunities.
Nestled into the show is an annual competition of "cool" products and the 2008 winners have been announced. There is a green category, a consumer category and an industry category. You can check all of the winners out here, but I’m going to focus on a few of the Industry winners.
- FAFCO Sungrabber Solar Hot Water System - forget those bulky units that ended up all yellow and leaking on your roof. These systems are thin, billed as affordable and claim to reduce hot water heating bills by 50 percent.
- Dow Building Solutions’ Styrofoam Structural Insulated Sheathing - combining structural bracing, insulation and water resistive barrier in one step this product will surely please everyone who hates to keep returning to yet another step on the same part of the building.
- KleenDeck’s KleenWrap - protect those subfloors during construction with this 20-cents-per-square-foot clear, thin, skid and tear resistant, breathable and recyclable material. It also removes virtually all particulate air pollution.
What will they think of next.
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