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This residential construction and research project sponsored by REHAU incorporates energy-efficient, sustainable building products and an overall holistic design approach. A major objective of the research is to determine how the various building systems are best integrated to optimize energy consumption, comfort and life-cycle costs.

December 6, 2010

Main Floor AmDeck Flooring System Installed

By Bill Hoy, Project Manager

The Montana winter has settled in: Two major storm systems and temperatures below 0 over the last two weeks have slowed progress on the REHAU MONTANA ecosmart house project. As of December 3, Bozeman had received another 6 inches of beautiful white powder snow. Fortunately, the foundation walls were completed, as planned, before the weather became a factor.

A break in the weather earlier in the week of November 29 allowed the contractor to install the AmDeck flooring system for the main floor. We are expecting a shipment of the light gauge support steel for the flooring system to arrive sometime this week (week of December 6), to be installed as soon as it arrives, weather permitting.

We have installed an interactive web camera at the construction site and are in the process of testing before going live. Once live, the camera can be accessed on the project website.


On Thursday, December 2, REHAU NA CEO Dr. Kathleen Saylor had a
chance to visit the site  for a progress briefing and tour of the project.