The Airform

We met Marty Heaton, of Domelogistics, at the conference and talked about our project. (At this point we had plans and an idea of what to do, but no one to 'push' the project) Marty listened to what we had done and seemed interested. He thought about what we had told him and decided that if we were ready to take it to the next step, he would help. He called us after the conference and said he'd like to come down and look things over. In the mean time, he was gathering information from the engineers at Monolithic Domes on our building site - just in case. He came down, looked it over, and then started the ball rolling. He delivered equipment to use in prepping the site for the leveling 'stemwall' and 'ringbeam' pours. He also obtained an airform and had it shipped to our site.

This is a picture of Andrew with the airform, when it arrived on March 27th. The airform is the outer layer of dome. It is made of PVC cloth-like polystyrene fibers. (very tough)