Patent ID: 8365496
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
1. A method of constructing a composite building using plastic foam pieces and Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete or GFRC, comprising the following steps, providing pieces of plastic foam to a building site, joining the pieces of foam with a bonding agent to create at least a portion of the building from the foam pieces, providing the GFRC in a dry form according to a GFRC formula having various ingredients, blending the ingredients to premix the GFRC, placing the dry form GFRC into a mixer, adding water to the dry form GFRC and mixing the water and dry form GFRC to form a wet form of GFRC, allowing the wet form of GFRC to hydrate, providing an elevated support, placing a pump on the elevated support, the elevated support and the pump being higher than portions of the building to be sprayed to reduce the required power of the pump, placing the wet form GFRC in the pump on the elevated support, pumping the wet form GFRC through a hose having a spray nozzle, the spray nozzle being lower than the pump so as to decrease the power needed by the pump to spray the GFRC and spraying the GFRC onto the foam surface of portions of the building.