Companies are building homes faster and more ecofriendly NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

With natural disasters, an affordability crisis, and limited land on which to build, those in the construction and design industries are creating innovative green solutions to reshape the way we build.

These three local companies are trying to create innovate ways to build consciously, create projects that withstand, and cost you less money in the long term.

Construction in today’s day and age is pretty standard.

“There are basically three materials to build with. You have steel, you have wood, and you have concrete. And that’s it. There hasn’t been a change in 100 years,” explained Patrick Murphy, Managing Director of RENCO, a company that aims to go a different way.

RENCO has created a composite building system made up of recycled glass, recycled plastic, calcite, and resin.

“Bottom line is that this building material is stronger, it’s faster to build with, it’s less expensive and it’s greener than traditional building materials, so it checks all of the boxes.”

And they look like life size Legos.

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