Long Term

Long term goals for the construction aspect of the GVCS includes ability to:

Build a limestone firing kiln to produce hydrated lime.
Demonstrate optimized CEB construction technique workflow for on-demand housing construction.
Demonstrate state of art rainwater catchment using ozonation as key component of purification process
Demonstrate greenwood gasification process at 98% efficiency for combined heat power purposes
Demonstrate green roofs as an effective eco-roofing technique
Include solar concentrator as part of combined heat and power system at under $1 per peak watt installed cost
Demonstrate 50 kW wind turbine with open source tower technology
Demonstrate arched, timbrel vault, Nubian vault, and corbeled arch construction for earthen roofs
Demonstrate septic fertigation technique for wastewater treatment, and rooftop/well hybrid for freshwater
Demonstrate open source well rig, open source cement mixer, and open source rebar production
Demonstrate super-insulated homes with bioplastic glazing from onsite resources, including glass block from cullet
Demonstrate biomass pellet-fueled construction machinery
Demonstrate construction material costs at $1 per square foot by using $13k of equipment (starting from metal melting):
- $2k bulldozer
- $2k for two tractors/skid loaders
- $1k CEB press
- $1k sawmill
- $500 cement mixer
- $500 limestone kiln
- $2k bioplastic extruder
- $1k well rig
- $500 soil pulverizer
- $500 trencher
- $1k wind turbine
- $1k solar concentrator

Long Term Construction Goals