The whole time, I’m studying and understanding more about humanity’s approach to building. At the same time, I took every class I could at West Valley Community College. I was with my family’s small development company we were doing small residential projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. When I got out of the army, I came back to California and I joined a construction crew to learn.
My grandfather was a carpenter, his father was a carpenter, my dad had built some homes, and so I knew I wanted to build. So you were a partner and principal at other architecture firms for more than 15 years before you decided to move out on your own and found Arx Pax. Read on to learn more about the particulars of the system, how it inspired Arx Pax’s ancillary work in hover engines, and how the company is working to get pilot projects off the ground in flood-prone parts of the US and elsewhere, including the Republic of Kiribati. The platform is protected from flooding because it can actually rise with the water level, and it’s also protected from other disruptive events such as earthquakes.Ĭurious about how-and how soon-the SAFE Building System might be implemented, BuiltWorlds spoke to Henderson recently. It consists of a pool of water at its base, filled with hollow concrete modules that are linked to create a solid platform on which to build. The US Army veteran-turned-seasoned architect and engineer formed his company a few years ago with the idea for a three-tiered foundation system, dubbed the SAFE Building System. With the fight against climate change moving at a crawl, most development in such areas is working to take increased water levels into account, either via construction of levees or structures propped on stilts, but Greg Henderson of Arx Pax has a different solution. The document predicts a global mean sea level rise of at least 0.3 meters and as much as 2.5 meters by 2100, and portions of the United States along the coastlines of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico are expected to see above-average rises, leaving their low-lying urban areas even more prone to costly water damage. On the eve of President Trump’s inauguration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration quietly released its latest report on rising sea levels, and the news was far from good. Greg Henderson and his wife, Jill, founded Arx Pax in 2012, and their first patent was for a three-tiered foundation system that today is known as the SAFE Building System.
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