Built America Magazine
Fire? “It can’t burn out. It won’t burn to the next room. It’s got to burn through metal.”
Mold? “There’s no pocket to store humidity.”
Insects? “There’s nothing for them to affect.”
Earthquakes? “Because the wall is an I- beam, it won’t shake down.”
Hurricanes? “We haven’t even added the foam yet and it’s 200 mile an hour rated.” In traditional wood construction, the structure is only as strong as its fasteners. Nails and screws connect isolated points. “In a wood-built house, the only place it’s connected is where there’s a nail or a screw,” Jimmy explains.
positioned to meet code requirements in high- risk coastal and tornado-prone regions.
The goal isn’t theory — it’s performance that can be certified and insured.
What emerged wasn’t just a panel. It was a steel-core structure. A Structure That Solves the Problems Jimmy doesn’t describe
incremental
improvement.
“You get all the problems solved in one design,” he says. “There’s nothing else out there that compares to that.”
JIMMY WINK | FOUNDER
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