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INDUSTRIALISTS

Pat Faley's company designs and builds drones for the US armed forces. These pilotless aircrafts are used with deadly purpose in Afghanistan, but also for surveillance over the US southern border with Mexico. This ex-fighter pilot is a brillant adviser on automation and other assembly line technologies.
Pierre Caouette, Regen Nautic founder and CEO is also an ex commercial pilot who recently developed digital technology to manage the electrical systems of 'green' yatchs and cruisers. More than a consulted friend and industrialist, Pierre is also a generous donor to the Institute. He also represents us occasionally in Florida where Regen Nautic is located.

INNOVATIVE

Space-Filling (tessalation) Housing Modules That Allow Expansion In several direction (Poirier- 1979)

Over 1000 houses in 12 countries built using this system

Wedge Action Panel Press (Poirier- 1980)

A-Frame double-dide press platens riding on rails and acting like 'easels' to receive facings and other sandwich panel components like doors and windows.
Fixed A-frame outer press receives the platens that are then wedged tightly into it by floor mounted hydraulics

TSUNAMIS

Obviously it is well worth living 10-15 ft above ground when the purpose is to sleep better, knowing that

J. Poirier fell in love with this geometry and gave most of his adult life to it. But first, back in the early seventies, he designed 25 different snowmobiles for 3 companies . Then he designed cross-country skis in Finland and Canada, acquiring expertise in injected urethane foams and their production machinery. Later he applied this knowledge to the design of camping trailers, then motor homes, then mobile homes, all embodying rigid foam stressed skin panels. He later worked for a year on a concept of housing based on identical panels bolted together in each corner. This effort culminated in developing the machinery and building a plant called Archimede. Rhombododecahedral housing was born, made up of only two format of panels, both parallelograms of roughly 100 inches on all sides. He did have a short carreer in commercial architecture, but the simplicity of those 'space filling' shapes seemed to have gotten Poirier hypnotized till today, this time focusing on the benefits to the planet that are possible through the Archimede Institute he recently founded.

'MUCHOMAS', A HIGH-OUTPUT PANEL MAKING PRESS

Will be disclosed by mid-April.

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