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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! |
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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.
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