Research & Design

Research & Design: The Future of Our Company

In 1983, Sun & Earth, Inc began to bring innovation, intelligence, and integrity to the design and construction of masonry and concrete structures. We continue to seek effective and efficient solutions to the challenges of building a sustainable future. We look forward to serving the construction industry and the public as research and development contractors, design consultants, and original equipment manufacturers.

We pursue innovation and leading edge ideas in the realms of shelter, tools, and materials science. A strategy using appropriate materials, methods, and design to create buildings that serve the occupants most efficiently has been a primary focus. We constantly test and monitor our materials and methods to find the better ways of getting the job done. Better means safer, more energy efficient, more environmentally friendly, more user oriented. Research with this focus has put our work at the forefront of building and design practices. Bringing the strength and economy of commercial and industrial building methods into the residential arena is one example of our working outside the conventional paradigms. Our talents and commitment to ideals guide our travel up this high path, into ever challenging terrain.

We are presently developing and marketing an amazing and improved concrete placing device, patent pending. We plan to use the capital to pursue other areas in the development of low impact, high efficiency housing; permeable pavements; the recycling of waste resources into useful building components; gray water reuse systems; and efficient hydronic heating designs, integrated with night sky radiant cooling.

The need and market for sustainable, appropriate materials, designs, and practices is greater than ever now, and keeps growing as the consumer culture of our times slowly realizes the necessity of preserving and cultivating a future. We are the innovators at the forefront of that trend. We will continue to make positive contributions to the world in our capacities as builders, inventors and far thinkers. We have practiced what we’ve preached and look forward to making a difference.