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PRESENT STATE OF KNOWEDGE ABOUT RADIANT COOLING SYSTEMS
A TOOL FOR MODELING BUILDINGS EQUPPED WITH RADIANT COOLING SYSTEMS
At a cost of about $75,000, Dr. Wilson said that he thinks the Ream's Turtle was the most economical building of that size ever built. He described its cost-effective construction. "The site for the Ream's Turtle was an old clay bed -- actually a giant hole -- created by Provo Brick and Tile, a company that excavated clay and made bricks for many years.
For 16 months, the construction of Jerri and Darrell Strube's new Monolithic Dome home, 50 feet in diameter and 23 feet high, in Marlow, Oklahoma went relatively smoothly. Once Andy Barnes, owner of Alpha Omega Builders in Kingston, Oklahoma, completed the dome shell, Jerri and Darrell began doing the finishing. And all continued going rather well -- until January 12.
