Re-purposing Benefits With EIFS

Our buildings use 40 percent of all the energy produced. Take a look at any city in the U.S. and one can see a number of existing buildings, a seemingly endless inventory of inhabitable structures. Most are still occupied and functioning in their intended purpose. Some brand new—examples of our best technology. Others may be a little older or aesthetically outdated; historical reminders of a by-gone era and yet others, sitting empty waiting to be occupied again. Granted, a few in this inventory are in need of destruction and at the end of their life-cycle but a large percentage of them are still structurally sound maybe waiting for a “new outfit,” to be made pretty again.

As a society we have learned that we cannot simply blow up buildings and send them to their grave to be covered by dirt, slowly bio-degrading and returned to dust. There is a growing trend for our inner-city buildings, forgotten shopping strips in the suburbs, office complexes, warehouse structures and even our homes, to be retrofitted and/or re-occupied.