Generational Structures
We’re about to review the TNSR marketing panel now. The detail. That is what is missing from the bland structures of today. Swole-Crete(tm) structures will build for a millennium of pleasing architecture again! We believe that we can implement essentially ANY fascia onto a Swole-Crete panel.
Would your memories of elementary school be different if you attended a school that looked like The Writer’s Museum instead of a cinder block cell?
Everybody knows that having beauty surround you improves your mental attitude. That’s why we tried to implement as many varied architectural details as we possibly could. We didn’t carve and measure and sweat over every detail in this panel. We used imagination and what was at hand. Uncovering parts that were visible before the crane lifted the panel gave us a surprising hint of potential success.
The end result is impressive even though it cracked. A first attempt raising a 40 foot long panel without steel reinforcement would definitely be surprising on the first try.
The pieces are photoshopped together to show you how it would have looked. Level 1 and 2 are each 12 feet high. The video of the crane lift is <<HERE>>.
The two windows of L2 looked like eyes, and since whimsy adds energy, we added eyebrows. The QR code was supposed to be the iris of the eye and would have been visible from a distance to bring people to this page.. The rustications were implemented with Foamular which you can see it’s ink transfer.
Level 1 has some more rustication above the door. We also experimented with putting sand between the stones as we laid them in to try different mortar impressions. The stones above the door have deeper mortar lines.
This panel is the initial implementation. The problem is that we don’t have engineering data for Swole-Crete to impress structural engineers. You’d think having an implementation that was unique in the field, ie concrete without steel reinforcement, you could find a university lab that would assist you in breaking it or proving it.
We’re still looking!
Ferguson Structural Engineering Lab, University of Texas and Center for Infrastructure Improvement, Texas A&M University are too busy to test our 16 foot beam. It is a thing to behold, embossed with our information, Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) installed so we can detect vibration, temperature, and stress every 10 millimeters. It is sitting there in the weather until we find someone with some test capacity available.
We’re currently waiting to hear from the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State. Their brand new lab is still finalizing how they are going to work with “external entities”. When that is figured out we’re hoping to be the flagship test setting the new standard.
We are a small startup company with some ideas. Time is a dimension that literally burns money so we can’t wait for labs to take an interest in our technology. We have to continue going forward trying to design tests that are impressive on their own even without meticulous research lab studies. You know the Wright brothers wouldn’t have gotten an assist from the experts either!
We believe this is a black swan event in the history of concrete construction. Since Roman times, people have been searching for something that would allow them to create a millennial concrete, something to last through the ages…again!
We believe we have it. <<THIS next test>> is OUTRAGEOUS, but we need some help.
Swole-Crete: Strengthen Tomorrow
