Super Efficient & Green Building System Touted by Fast Company magazine

In one month, voting will begin for Google's 10^100 contest, which encourages inventors to change the world and help as many people on the planet as possible. One can already peruse some of the ideas being submitted. Apparently the editors at Fast Company magazine found the Vitruvian Building System intriguing, posting a story on how the company's structural insulated panel construction method is super green and energy efficient.

"Instead of typical sheetrock walls, the main component of a Vitruvian building is super-insulating foam panels, that are prefabricated and can be fit into place at a construction site. Vitruvian believes the improved insulation that results is more than a marginal improvement: Buildings produce 30% of our greenhouse gas emissions."

Despite Fast Company writer Cliff Kuang's vague grasp of construction methods (Why, for example, wouldn't the home employ drywall on the interior? Do homeowners want to look at insulation for the life of the home?), it is nice to see something positive in the mainstream press on building systems. Read the full story here.