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Building envelopes separate the interiors of our homes and businesses from the outdoors, but their quality is often held back by limitations of the prescriptive construction process. The quest to improve the building envelope formula has been a personal mission for Brant Taylor for the last 9 years. Whether you're planning on building a treehouse, a real house, or any structure you need to endure disaster, climate change or worse, 7B Solutions is the only Idaho Contractor with the technical acumen, the building science expertise, and the creativity to deliver your desired construction performance outcome. From underground bunkers to secret safe rooms, building vaults or fixing condensation in vaulted ceilings, 7B Solutions can build, design, or improve your envelope system.
Most homeowners and building operators are fighting a losing battle against unwanted indoor critters because they aren't addressing the root cause of rodent or insect infestations- access to the interior through the building envelope.
7B Solutions offers pest related building envelope assessments including pressurized smoke leak detection, to completely seal the interior from the outdoors and eliminate pest infiltration for good.
With the rising cost of energy, keeping heat IN during the winter is more important than ever. The vast majority of heat loss is caused by gaps in the building envelope which allow air to move through the walls. 7B Solutions can scan your walls and assess your airtightness and remediate your structure to radically improve your energy consumption efficiency.
A high-performance modular building envelope solution, the RES (Rapid Envelope System) features a portable fabrication process that can be operated off-grid in a solar-powered shipping container. This system is designed to establish new communities quickly in remote rural areas, address rapid-built housing needs for migrating populations, and features reusable modular wall, floor, and roof components for maximum building versatility.
Before the US government began defunding science and education, we were on-track to address the housing affordability crisis with an iteration of the RES system that was configured to operate and deploy so efficiently, we could effectively cut the cost of new home construction in half, when unexpected revelations in the ethics of our funding sources forced us into a different direction. This is the last-ditch effort pitch video sent to the California Senate in the summer of 2024.
The Smart Stud technology was first invented in 2017 around the idea of a modular stud. It's unique design plans for every possible configuration of downstream trades processes, resulting in profoundly fast timelines and affordable disaster-proof structures. Smart Stud sent a shockwave of curiosity and debate throughout the building science sector, and to this day is still regarded as one of the most original inventions in residential building construction.