Jimmy doesn’t ease into an idea.
He sees something broken, and he wants to fix it.
“I just have a gift at looking at things and going, ‘Wow — we can do that simpler and that simpler and better.’” That mindset — practical, direct, and unwilling to accept “that’s how it’s always been done” — is what led him to design a steel-core structural system he believes can permanently change the way America builds.
Not tweak it. Change it.
From Shipping Containers to Steel Core Wink Panels began with a different opportunity. A friend in Florida wanted Jimmy to help acquire a struggling company converting shipping containers into homes. “They discovered the wall on those shipping shipping containers had a pretty good wind rating,” Jimmy recalls.
use corrugated steel panels, weld a flat bar at the top and bottom to create an I-beam, then add steel studs on both sides . That design leaves space for spray foam insulation on the exterior and keeps the interior cavity open for plumbing and electrical. When testing began, the numbers spoke for themselves. “This concept and design has over a 200 mile per hour wind rating,” he says. “Before you even add the spray foam.” The foam, he says, adds roughly another 30% in strength . “Well, I decided to put it together and prove it.” They built sections. They tested them. They began pursuing patent protection. The 200- mph wind rating is based on engineering and structural testing, and the system is being
But he wasn’t interested in being limited by container dimensions.
“You’re stuck with the size and the shape,” stuck with the size and the shape,” he says. “I wasn’t really interested in that.” Instead, he asked his engineer to test another idea:
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