Interior Construction Products

Products you choose for the inside of your Monolithic Dome can add to your comfort and feeling of security. At Monolithic, we continually shop for, research and test various devices, that – according to their advertising – were designed to improve everyday life. We often reject and discard such items. But those that we find useful and true to their advertised claims, we continue using in our own dome-homes and our business facility. We now recommend and offer these products to our clients. They include but are not limited to automated devices for monitoring interior air quality and humidity, Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERV) and on-demand hot water heaters. Please take the time to review our selection. You may want to incorporate one or more into your construction plans.

Heating And Cooling Systems for Monolithic Domes

by David South, Jr. July 30, 11:20 a.m. Interior Construction Products

Determining the size of heating and cooling systems for Monolithic Domes offers some really special challenges. These challenges require some serious original thinking. Factors that mean almost nothing in conventional structures are important in Monolithic Domes. (Continued…)

Fresh Air and ERVs

by David B. South May 08, 11:25 a.m. Interior Construction Products

How do you bring fresh, breathable air inside your home, school or church without losing your Monolithic Dome’s energy efficiency? Here’s what I have learned. (Continued…)

High Occupancy Design Criteria for HVAC in the Monolithic Dome

by David B. South April 17, 9:41 a.m. Interior Construction Products

To the HVAC engineer, the Monolithic Dome presents some serious challenges. The number one challenge has to do with recognizing and understanding the thermodynamics of the Monolithic Dome. Unlike any structure built in the conventional world, the Monolithic dome is a very large thermal storage. (Continued…)

Carbon Dioxide Monitoring

by David B. South April 17, 8:59 a.m. The President's Sphere

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) monitoring is not a new concept, but it’s proving to be a tough one to handle. It has to do with the amount of fresh air in a structure.
Most of us have heard of sick buildings. When the air in a building gets polluted with vapors that can be or are harmful to us, the result is a sick building. (Continued…)

The RecoupAerator -- Fresh Filtered Air

by David B. South & Craig Kinzelman July 23, 2008, 1:59 p.m. Interior Construction Products

The EPA and the American Lung Association recommend that, in all cases, proper ventilation be present in the home, before purchasing an air cleaner of any kind. The experts all agree that the most effective way to reduce indoor pollution is to ventilate — remove polluted air and replace it with fresh, outdoor air. However, during the winter or summer, the cost of adequate ventilation almost equals heating and cooling the neighborhood — except with the RecoupAerator, Model 200 DX. (Continued…)

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New Head Start Center Opts For Monolithic Domes

Soft is not a word usually associated with concrete. Yet, soft, round and homey were just what administrators at Centro de la Familia de Utah, the coordinating agency for Utah’s Migrant Head Start Program, saw in Monolithic Domes, as they reviewed possible school designs for their new facility in Genola, Utah. (Continued…)

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Being the coinventor of the dome and the founder of the Monolithic Dome Institute has given David B. South the opportunity to not only fine tune the building process, but to create a company whose main mission is to make available Monolithic Dome technology to all the world. It is the hope of Monolithic to educate the public about Monolithic Domes and to provide professional services to its customers by creating a successful partnership with them through all phases of their dome design, planning and construction. (Continued…)

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Las Vegas dome owners plan to persevere

David and Su-Z Allen can relate to the old phrase that even the best-laid plans often go awry. In the process of building their new Monolithic Dome home, “emergencies keep cropping up,” Su-Z told a reporter for The View newspaper in Las Vegas. But even though it is not yet finished, the Fenix Dome is an “impressive and eye-catching structure,” according to the article. “There is literally nothing like it in town.” (Continued…)

Iowa Family Explains Why There’s No Place Like Dome

Jay and Jeanne Hansen say they like to be different, and that’s one of the reasons why they opted to build a Monolithic Dome home. “We don’t like to copy what other people do; we like to do things that stand out,” Jay Hansen told Iowa television news station KWWL. (Continued…)

To Every American in favor of Green Housing

For thirty plus years America’s leaders have been wanting more energy efficient, more hazard resistant, more cost efficient green structures for houses, churches, schools, etc. To those leaders and citizens we now say: We have such structures! Please implement the rules to allow them to happen. (Continued…)

Cabin Special - Model 15

We are offering a financing option for our Model 15 Monolithic Cabin. (Continued…)

What It Costs, November 2009

Construction costs have stayed stable throughout October and November, 2009. (Continued…)

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