The brightest news in the housing industry is a (patented US. 6,766,282)) web-based "Green" technology for the construction industry. Untapped massisive market awaits.

AccuFrame claims title as ‘Greenest Building System’

Recent economic times have changed the face of housing and the construction industry. Not many areas of the country are insulated from falling home prices and decreasing land values, mixed with increasing costs of fuel, transportation, and materials. Those economic forces combine to make it a really tough business environment for the construction industry.

Due to rising fuel costs, many housing experts are making the case to buy goods and services close to the building site in an attempt to lower material delivery cost while preserving resources. This certainly helps, but is it enough to keep a construction business profitable?

Where does the independent home builder or big home contractor go from here?
Is there a way to mitigate these negative economic forces?
What about using Green building alternatives?
Can “Going Green” help keep a construction business alive until the economy rallies…and does it make sense to continue “Going Green” once our economic problems right themselves?

A Solution for Builders and homebuyers:

As a contractor, if you haven’t thought about - or are not already implementing Green practices into your home building process, you’re not only wasting profit, but you’re not recognizing what buyers are looking for. In today’s market, savvy home buyers are demanding energy efficient homes. Most successful builders recognize and have implemented some sort of Green building strategies to help drive sales and peak consumer interest.

The patented (US 6,766,282) AccuFrame-Green provides the “Greenest Building System”. AccuFrame Green allows a building to be built on-site with computer accuracy, providing labor savings using 1:1 scale framing templates printed on DuPont ‘Tyvek’. The performance measures builders achieve using AccuFrame Green are unsurpassed by other systems today. AccuFrame Green templates have been proven to provide immediate savings of 12-15% in the framing cycle of constructing homes through:
1) Faster framing because each wall layout is computer generated from architectural files. Framing templates generated from those files are printed in permanent ink on DuPont Tyvek.
2) Framing can be accomplished by less skilled labor.
3) Waste reduction becomes immediately evident as an exact size cut list for every framing component is provided with every wall template.
4) The back of the Tyvek wall template is coated with a weather sealing gasket sealing approx. 1,260 lineal feet of unsealed framing and sheathing gaps in a normal 2400 square foot home.

Why is AccuFrame Green the Greenest Building System?

• AccuFrame Green templates are delivered by UPS/FedEx. Our template delivery system is virtually unaffected by rising fuel cost. Or another example, eight thousand AccuFrame homes can be delivered by a single tractor trailer.
• AccuFrame’s template system is the most energy efficient on-site framing method. Corners and partition junctions can be insulated and can easily promote (OVE) Optimum Value Engineering and ‘Stack’ framing solutions via the template denotations. These processes have been proven to provide energy savings, material savings, and value to the builder. Additionally; the homebuyer is rewarded by reduced heating and cooling cost over the life cycle of the structure.
• AccuFrame Green is a new product that combines the framing savings of the template with a weather sealing gasket. By example, Green seals approx. 1,260 lineal feet of unsealed framing and sheathing gaps in a normal 2400 square foot home. By sealing these deficient air gaps, insulation can perform at its highest rating by reducing air migration into the insulated wall cavities and conditioned space.
• Builders can receive AccuFrame Green templates within days of order placement. Templates can be used for right or left hand building models with no alterations. Last minute change orders or site modification can be easily handled by overriding the system with a Sharpie Pen, making AccuFrame the most flexible system in today’s building environment.
• AccuFrame Green eliminates the requirement to have a crane or lull-lift machine on-site to lift heavy wall sections. Eliminating costly machinery rentals dramatically reduces costs and overall fuel consumption to build a home. Lumber deliveries can also be made with full lumber loads once again lowering on-site costs to build a home.

Maybe without even knowing it, perhaps the first to embrace early Green strategies were Egyptian builders, knowing that human manpower and innovation is the most effective way to construct. An onsite construction trend continues in the US housing market and is the most compelling reason why site-built construction is still the most popular method with construction masses (approx. 80% of all US housing starts) because it remains the most flexible and cost effective way to build structures today.


AccuFrame Green – Why use anything else?

AccuFrame Green is a production manager’s dream invention. Like Henry Ford’s assembly line contribution to any manufacturing industry, AccuFrame Green combines huge labor savings in the framing process by eliminating the need for highly paid framers, providing easy-to-follow templates for less skilled (lower cost) labor, eliminating material waste through cut lists, and incorporating air-gap insulating properties in the framing process automatically.

AccuFrame is committed to bring technology advancements to the building industry… building faster is the goal, building better is the result, “Building Green” is our mission!

“AccuFrame, Bringing Blueprints to Life”.

The AccuFrame™ System produces easy to use, visual framing templates using DuPont Tyvek®, the same moisture and tear-resistant housewrap material contractors use everyday. Developed directly from the architect’s CAD drawings, these AccuFrame™ System Tyvek® templates are printed with permanent ink for rough exterior construction use.

Connecting the design phase with the actual building environment is the logical way to reduce waste and rework in the residential construction industry today. Collaboration between the architect, the engineer and “now” the framing crew is done by presenting the information in a clear, easy to use visual format that ensures accuracy and predictability at the framing stage.

Developed digitally from the CAD drawings, framers are provided with wall templates showing exact stud locations. Corners, windows and doors are detailed on the template in industry standard notation using energy saving framing methods. Also included are framing component lengths for exact rough openings, a complete bill of materials, and a cut list. The templates are stapled to the top and bottom plates simultaneously for an accurate and expeditious layout. The framing crew locates each framing member based on the template location.

AccuFrame™ is not only the ultimate building document, it is a contractors “must-have” for energy savings, accuracy, waste elimination and speed in housing production.
“AccuFrame™, Bringing Blueprints to Life” please visit us at: www.accuframesystem.com