This video shows how furniture can be built using green technology (Zipblocks).
Zipblocks are green for several reasons.
1) The biggest reason that they are green is simply because you can use them over and over again. If you get tired of what you built, just take it apart and build something else. In this sensetheir value never diminishes.
2)They create zero waste during construction. When you cut Zipblocks in two you dont create waste you only create two smaller blocks!
3)They can be made out of sustainable resources. The ones illustrated in this video were made out of wood.
In this video we demonstrate the embly/disassembly of a small planter box that has a somewhat fancy design. We chose to make it small and somewhat fancy so that we could demonstrate this building systems ability to effortlessly morph into almost any geometric shape.
We get a lot of requests for Zipblocks and/or Zipblock pricing. Unfortunately we have not found a manufacturer to make them out of wood yet so we dont have any to sell and we dont have any exact pricing. Despite this, we do have an idea as to what they may cost when they do become available.
The blocks in this movie were made out of cabinet-grade plywood. A sheet of this plywood runs around $33 at your local home supply center. You can easily create 333 two inch Zipblocks from a sheet of this plywood. This means that each two inch Zipblocks costs $33/333 = 10 cents.
The blocks used to create the planter box ranged from 2 to 6 cubes long. The total number of cubes needed to build it was 62 cubes. So at 10 cents per cube this planter box would cost around $6.20 to build. Please keep in mind that bulk purchasing and manufacturing would drive costs down. Also keep in mind that we used expensive plywood to build our blocks with. One could easily make blocks from materials that are much less expensive.
To learn more about these and other blocks you can visit us at http://www.ZipBlocks.com
Duration : 0:9:51
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Thanks for the post …
Thanks for the post. Yupwe dont have any real stats on production costs, strength, building codes, etc. We are only an intellectual property companyjust two people at the moment, a shop, our IP, and a website. Our goal is simply to license Zipblocks to companies that have the resources to commercialize them. There are tons of applications for them. We recently licensed to a company that intends to make foam building products with them like roofing and flooring systems, ICFs, etc.
Interesting numbers …
Interesting numbers but you didn’t include cost of saw, electricity, compressor to power stapler, staples, staple gun etc. and relative amount of experience to produce them… what of structural strength? Any numbers on building a 1000 Sq Foot home out of same? Very interesting and looks fun but commercial questions remain to be answered.