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Airstone 2.0, is the first construction method in concrete that is based on completely circular materials and thus has no footprint at all. Either from the reactivated ash or slag that replaces the dangerous cement and virgin materials. You can say that this is a variant of the Roman concrete. Caementicium, which originated in ancient Egypt and has now returned.

 

The entire Airstone house construction, from foundation to roof, is completely made of cement-free concrete of various weight, just like Pantheon in Rome. It does not need either glass wool or cellular plastic, which emit gases and burn very intensely. Just look at the fire in London where 79 people died or in California where tens of thousands of wooden houses burned down. There are many cities that has burnt down totally over the centuries as they were built in wood.

 

The background to the uncompromising construction dates back to 1996, when Airstone Academy's founder, Rolf Bertil Wall, as artistic and creative director at New Art, was commissioned by the Heart-Lung Foundation to visualize the various factors that affect people's health. It turned out that asthma and allergy had increased 100% in Europe in ten years. Cancer also increased.

 

 

"My thought was that it must have something to do with the indoor environment, as we are indoors 90% of the time," says Rolf B Wall and continues: "It is quite likely the materials around us that create diseases we should be able to avoid. There must be no plastic paints, glass fiber, cellular plastics, epoxy or glued chipboard in the construction either. The best thing to do then is simply to remove everything dangerous".

 

It would turn out to take time, almost 20 years to form a team that could do this, but today you can get a house, regardless of size, from our authorized builders. Houses that have neither glass fibers flying around and getting stuck in the lungs nor gases from plasticizers in the plasters. Dream houses for people suffering from allergy and asthmatics, in other words. It is a good investment in the future.

 

 

If you also want to have freedom in design, this is the system that allows complete artistic freedom and, moreover, maintenance is almost non-existent. The colors last for many generations, even on hard stone surfaces.

 

 

It is also the fastest building technology in the world. Three build team can erect one house per day and start up is possible almost immediatelly.

 

 

There is also no iron in the reinforcement, as that rusts and cracks the concrete. In the reinforcement, only a natural material is used, namely basalt, which is found in the bedrock all over the world. It is four to five times as strong as iron but weighs only nine percent of the weight. And it never rusts. As Airstone 2.0 can be mixed with seawater it makes no difference, as there is no iron for the salt to attack.

 

 

 

At the same time that these houses are now becoming possible to get with an Airstone Everlast energy storage system, which runs practically solely on sun and heat and thus does not cause any footprint either. Forever, can be mentioned.

 

 

A circular approach naturally includes a small greenhouse that is very productive, as it is watered automatically by the gray water in the house in a circular system. It can produce over a ton of greens per year and if you want fish, you connect to an aquaponics circuit in the greenhouse, where fish are grown in symbiosis with the plants.

 

The best thing is that it won't cost more than regular customers want to pay, making it posssible to live with extremely low housing costs and at the same time in a long-term sustainable and healthy way. And you can create nice environments both for schools, apartment buildings and senior housing, and for reasonable money as well.

 

Facts

 

 

The Airstone Institute and academy has 255 members worldwide, all with extensive knowledge in alkali-activated chemistry - which was completely lacking in many countries - and is a non-profit organization funded by the research world itself.

 

Jannie van Deventer from Melbourne, Australia is the world's highest-ranked cement researcher, former chairman of RILEM, with over 600 published scientific reports behind him, mainly concerning geopolymers, an area that has been completely lacking in research in Sweden and many countries for many years. Airstone Academy, on the other hand, has over a thousand years of combined experience in the field.

 

Bo Göran Hellers is professor emeritus at KTH architecture, former director at CBI for eight years.

 

Rolf Bertil Wall. Father of eight children and resident on Gotland, Kampala Uganda and Chicago USA. Studied economics and international trade in London. Nature lover and sailor. Former CEO and creative director at New Art for twenty years and before that as an international agent for American companies in the hi-fi and music world. Founder of the world-leading academy Airstone Institute and Airstone Academy. A non-profit association with members in over forty countries.

 

 

The first tests were successfully done at Berkeley in 1982 by the academy's Finnish colleagues.

 

 

Rolf B Wall created the design of the first fully circular dwellings back in 2012 in Haiti after the earthquake. Today, Airstone Academy is an advisor in many of the fastest growing economies in the world, where it has been realized that it will not be possible to wait until either 2030 or 2045 to be climate neutral when two billion homes will need to be built, considering the fact that the built society accounts for 40% of world emissions.

 

Airstone is the only team in the world to be able to offer a complete patented building system with unique circular materials with a sub-zero footprint, just what the world has been waiting for. And since we are already at the tipping point and can't stand any more emissions at all now, we have to take our responsibility and end up below zero immediately. Choosing circular materials that cut emissions compared to building in solid wood is easy to adopt. The trees are needed to absorb Co2, but as there are also trees like bamboo when  growing that absorb massive amounts of green house gases.

 

 

Airstone partners have developed a method of transforming bamboo fiber into a ceramic material, possible to cast in place. A major step forward, as it does not burn, rott, mold or dekay like ordinary wood. It is indeed generation 2.0 in building as it is the fastest on top of everything. Three teams build one house  per day on average.

 

 

The first build method with a negative footprint, i.e. far below zero emissions.

 

 

The best thing about it that the Airstone method is, that it won't cost more than regular customers can afford. You can live with extremely low housing costs and at the same time in a long-term sustainable and healthy way. And one can create nice environments both for schools, apartment buildings in a circular approach, which naturally includes a small greenhouse that is very productive. It is watered automatically by the gray water in the house in a circular system. It can produce over a ton of greens per year and if you want fish, you connect to an aquaponics circuit in the greenhouse, where fish are grown in symbiosis with the plants.