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Passive Solar, Energy Efficient, Disaster Resistant, Earth Sheltered Underground Homes Thank you for visiting Performance Building Systems, Inc. If there is not a menu to the left please click HERE to go to www.earthshelter.com EARTH SHELTER CUSTOM HOMES Beautiful, Protective, Efficient ..... ..... EARTH SHELTER PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES For Aircraft, RV's & Other Valuables Performance Building Systems is dedicated to the continuous improvement of the quality, durability, environmental performance, energy efficiency and affordability of housing. Our patented system benefits homeowners in the following proven ways: Unrivaled energy efficiency Unequaled safety in resistance to natural disasters Unmatched durability and nearly maintenance free exterior Unparalleled quiet and comfort California Open House Email us for Brad Glasse's contact information to get directions and schedule a tour. The Glasse home during construction. Home completed in 2006. Inside the Glasse home We produce steel structural systems that with concrete forms a shell rated in excess of 4000-psi. When sheltered with earth, the home benefits from the constancy of the earth's temperature, greatly reducing heating and cooling expense. Additionally, the strength of the shell and the shelter provided by the earth combine to protect both the home and occupants from harm. Our homes, built throughout the United States since 1979, meet all Uniform Building Codes. All the materials, skills, equipment, and technology are conventional, proven and readily available. However, no other type of home comes close in efficiency, durability, and safety! By designing for the advantages of thermal mass and passive solar, these homes benefit from energy that is clean, abundant, reliable, and free. In fact, our system received an Award of Energy Innovation from the Department of Energy. We've also appeared in Popular Science, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek International, Entrepreneur, Better Homes and Gardens Building Ideas, and many other magazines and newspapers. Are you coming to Durango, Colorado to visit Mesa Verde or ride the historic 1880's narrow gauge railroad to Silverton? Please give us a call to schedule a free tour of our model home while you are in town!  ............ COLORADO OPEN HOUSE Want to see the construction process, see a variety of finished homes around the country, and design your own? Then order the comprehensive DVD/Guidebooks package today! Twenty-six years of research and hands-on experience have gone into the design of a building system suitable for almost any site, in any climate, anywhere in the world. Our research and design is continuous. Our Professional Engineer carries a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in Civil/Structural Engineering from Brigham Young University. He is a member of the American Institute of Steel Construction and a member of the American Concrete Institute's Committee 334 "Thin Shell Structures". We engineer projects for all states. We produce bolt-together structural forming systems to build the most advanced and versatile thin-shelled monolithic hemispherical concrete domes, arches, and barrels for earth sheltered structures. Uses range from homes to numerous other applications. Such as this non-earth sheltered chapel in Texas. Our system makes construction easy. There are no expensive forms to purchase, transport, maintain, set up or take down. Our basic designs can easily be modified to your requirements. We're always available to answer your questions throughout the planning and building process. On-site inspection of the kit assembly by PBSI personnel is included in the kit price -- regardless of the site within the continental United States. Performance Building Systems, Inc. (formerly Earth Systems, Inc.) is owned and operated by Gene Pearcey, one of the inventors of the patented structural system. The first Earth Systems home was built in Phoenix, Arizona in 1979. In 1992, Earth Systems changed its marketing approach and Performance Building Systems, Inc. was formed to market the structural system.   PBS Sustainable Earth Shelter Project Planned to Overlook the Pacific Ocean - http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/sldt/0509/#/24 Ocean Mountain Ranch – A Model Sustainable Land Development - Located along a 1000’ ridgetop, Ocean Mountain Ranch (OMR) overlooks the Pacific Ocean and the largest remaining old growth forest on the southern coast. OMR is planned to be developed pursuant to a forest stewardship management plan which has been approved by the Oregon Department of Forestry and Northwest Certified Forestry under the high standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). OMR is planned to provide a permaculture model for exemplary organic forestry operation incorporating residential, agricultural, educational, and recreational activities as a pilot SLDI-certified carbon-negative project - http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/sldt/0809/#/18    Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) - A developer-led and cooperatively-owned technology and information resource association, is now positioned to help transform the industry that creates the very infrastructure of our civilization. Sustainable development starts with our global infrastructure. If it is unsustainable, ultimately nothing else can be. Featured products and services include green building technology, clean energy technology, ecosystem restoration, carbon sequestration technology, soil enhancement technology, water purification and retention technology, sustainable land development best practices systems and certification programs - www@SLDI.org For additional information about the SLDI-Certified Project program, and/or Ocean Mountain Ranch, contact Terry Mock, SLDI Executive Director, at tmock@sldi.org. If there is not a menu or you get trapped in just this frame click HERE to go to www.earthshelter.com