Floor Plan Designs

 

MFI & MFI West (MFI)

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Affordable, Safe, Sustainable, Low Utilities, Self-Sufficient Communities

 

MFI can provide a permanent solution for the skyrocketing cost of living. Lower cost, higher strength steel homes are resistant to fire, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes while capping the cost for the utilities by using renewable and sustainable energy, waste, sewage, food and water solutions. These solutions can be applied for the benefit of the middle and upper income housing, as well as for workforce housing, and or a solution for housing the homeless. They can be stacked for apartments, condos, multi-story homes as well as hospitals, nursing homes, police stations, fire stations, retail stores, restaurants, offices, basements, swimming pools, and a variety of other applications. 

Hempcrete - is an ideal application for building a new steel home community. Hempcrete on the exterior is an (up to) R30 insulator and fire retardant up to 2,000 degrees F. It is highly resistant to cracking and impact from earthquakes and flying debris from a tornado or hurricane. A hempcrete exterior can upgrade and beautify like a fine stucco or textured concrete finish, with or without added colors.

Energy Glass TM (Solar Impact Structural Glass) – For all the windows and sliding glass doors, the use of Solar Impact Structural Glass can produce 3 watts per square foot of electricity with single pane glass, and 6 watts for double pane glass, to help power the home or business.  It is highly resistant to flying debris and can be built to standards that resist bullets and bombs. Because the glass produces electricity, it qualifies for the Federal Government’s 40% tax credit and accelerated depreciation as well. These same High Impact Solar windows and doors also can stand very high degrees of heat and dissipate it unlike most glass which will crack and burst. Finally, windows and doors can pay for themselves.

Steel Roofs - The roofs of steel homes are very strong. They can be used with a spiral or other staircase as additional space for gardening or a deck. A deck can have a solar array sunshade 8 feet high over it and LED lights under it coupled with a battery to power the home. When it rains, runoff can be collected either in rain barrels and purified by them, or water can be purified in cisterns made from the same steel containers. The Solar Array together with a battery can supply electricity for the home and car chargers. It also qualifies for the 30% Federal Tax Credit and Accelerated Depreciation and permanently reduces the electric bill. 

Air-to-Water - For arid areas with little rain or snow, we can supply Air-to-Water systems that can capture the moisture from the air at night and during the day and condense it into water that can be stored and purified in the same containers. A system or systems that can produce 1500 gallons per day of pure drinking water can be implemented for a community’s home and garden needs. Smaller systems that can produce 100 gallons per day can be placed on individual homes.

Geothermal Air Conditioning and Solar Hot Water Heater - We can implement Geothermal air conditioning, utilizing the ground’s natural cooler temperature at 6 to 10 feet below the surface. The temperature underground at 6 to 10 feet is typically 69-75 degrees Fahrenheit. Piping can be run at this depth with a fan to carry the cooler air into the home. Minimal added heat or cooling is required for a desired temperature in the home. This greatly reduces the heating/cooling bills permanently. Added cooling can be obtained by blowing the air over cold-water pipes and heating by blowing over hot water pipes. A Solar Hot Water Heater can be used to heat the water for the home and can be run under the floor for ambient heat from a heated floor.

Waste-to-Energy systems - provide additional power for the Charging stations, community lights, security systems, public buildings, and additional power needs. Waste-to-Energy systems use all organic garbage and plastic as well as human and animal waste and convert to clean electricity without exhausting any noxious fumes or toxins.

Solar/Hydrogen Battery - Over public areas and parking spaces, installed additional solar arrays  provide extra electricity, and also electrolyze water to break the hydrogen oxygen bond to create pure hydrogen and oxygen gases which can be used to store energy like a battery. The hydrogen gas can be stored in tanks and then run through a fuel cell with added ambient oxygen to create electricity at night as well as heat and water. This can be a closed loop system that can reuse the water constantly changing it from water into gases and then recombining the hydrogen with the oxygen back into water repeatedly which makes it very efficient. The pure oxygen can be used by patients that need it or in Hyperbaric Chambers to improve the community’s general health.

There should be bike paths and sidewalks. The roads can be covered by a solar array which would improve the road’s life, provide shelter from the weather, water catches for precipitation and be lined on the underside to power LED lights and cameras for the roads and sidewalks. Solar glass can cover the sidewalks in both the residential and retail areas, allowing light in without UV heat and enabling walking no matter what the weather happens to be. Hydrogen fuel cells with pressurized storage tanks can be used as a battery and be applied on the roof for individual homes and larger pressurized storage tanks for additional power for the whole community. 

Vertical Gardens – Solar Impact Structural Glass can be used to build a community organic garden that can provide the health and cost benefits of fresh fruits and vegetables year-round for all the residents. The whole 20+-foot-tall building can be made of Solar Impact Glass so the entire structure can produce energy for heat and grow lights and is highly capable of resisting fire and flying debris. It would also qualify for the Federal Tax Credits and Accelerated Depreciation as well.

By including all these elements in the initial building plans and bundling them in the financing, the overall cost per unit can still be well under the normal market price for a home and the ongoing utility costs would be permanently controlled and contained. For the homeless and other government funded projects, a Public/Private Partnership can be done including a loan in which half the loan can be forgiven if it is for humanitarian and environmental purposes. With a Public or Private Guarantor for  a minimum of $25 million dollars, this principal amount can be multiplied as much as 10 times the amount and half of the loan can be forgiven. For example, If there is a Guarantor for $50 million dollars, the loan amount would become $500 million dollars and half of it would be forgiven, that is only half would have to be repaid. If only $200 million dollars was used and $300 million dollars remained in the account, then the next loan a few weeks later could be for $3 billion dollars with half forgiven again. This can continue to expand to meet whatever demands there may be to justify these loans.

One of the great things about this sustainable community plan is that it creates many jobs to build the homes and maintain/operate all the various systems. The community residents can be hired and trained to fill these positions so they can afford to buy their own home and electric vehicle and confidently live a good life.     

It would be valuable to include units for a small grocery store to supplement the fresh fruits and vegetables grown in the onsite energy glass green house. Also, cafes and other retail shops to serve the community needs.

In communities for the homeless, it would be important to include a clinic to help with addiction and psychological issues and education modules where we can train them in the trades necessary to build and maintain the homes, run the Waste-to-Energy garbage and sewage power plant, Air-to-Water production equipment and other building, maintenance and repair skills. Also, to help them get jobs outside the community. The Charging Stations will be able to charge any electric transportation from bikes and golf carts to cars and trucks. It would also be important to be serviced by public transportation as well.