Naxcer Announces a Rapid Building System for Diaster Recovery

Online, February 9, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Over the last several days the World has learned the magnitude of damage caused by the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010. Unfortunately it has become clear that a significant percentage of the structures in many parts of the country were destroyed. The initial United Nations damage report estimates the extent of the damaged and uninhabitable buildings in several cities; Port Au Prince - 60%, Carrefour - 40% to 50%, Gressier - 40% to 50%, Loegane - 80% to 90%, Petit Goave - 15% and Jacmel - 50% to 60%. As a result, Haiti has a momentous need for rapid construction facilities to provide shelter for well over 3 million people in urban areas and many remote areas of the country.
The Naxcer Rapid Deployment Building System has the ability to meet the near-term and long-term humanitarian needs in Haiti. The Naxcer Rapid Deployment Building System is an adaptation from a military building system with many of the same requirements; rapid construction of rigid structures in areas having little or no infrastructure.

Our building system extensively uses advanced composite materials and a design principal of "manufacturing" as many building supplies on-site to significantly reduce shipping and logistics. For example, for Haiti relief efforts we are able to place 5 complete buildings in a single shipping container. The building solutions that have been designed for Haiti are Hurricane and Earthquake resistant, permanent structures.

"We are proud to be able offer these building solutions to the great needs that exist in Haiti," comments Andrew Chumney, CEO of Naxcer Composites. "Our building system allows us to build a permanent and cost effective hurricane resistant facility in 1 to 2 days. This capability allows us to focus on the most urgent shelter needs of medical clinics, orphanages, schools, bath houses, food distribution centers and homes."

This building system, using a mobile molding station, allows the construction crews to make the blocks used for the walls of the building on-site from a two part composite mix. This process significantly reduces the amount of materials that need to be shipped to the construction site. The use of a very simple stackable and interlocking block construction system results in a very rapid construction timeline. This simple construction method also allows the extensive use local labor and non-tradesman.

"I believe the most important aspect of this building system is the ability to deploy shipping containers to nearly anywhere in the World and build structures within days of arrival," says Peter Madsen, COO of Naxcer Composites. "Being able to rapidly deploy into situations that have little or no infrastructure to support traditional construction operations was a design requirement we originally developed for the military application of this building system," continued Mr. Madsen. "With the Earthquake in Haiti, the humanitarian application of this building system design becomes very clear."

In addition to the environmentally friendly aspects of this construction technique, the use of advanced composite materials has many benefits, such as extremely strong structures, very long useful life and a very low carbon foot print. The use of these materials and techniques has typically been sporadic and limited to homes seeking high efficiencies or environmentally friendly construction. Due to the expected overburdened construction industry and limited natural resources (wood, steel and concrete) in the country of Haiti, the executive team at Naxcer Composites Group feels this building solution will be one of the cost effective keys to a successful reconstruction of Haiti.

About Naxcer Composites Group:

Naxcer Composites is an innovative design, manufacturing and testing company, involved in lightweight, high performance advanced composite materials. In addition to this unique building system, the Company has with an innovative composite armor system for use in aerospace, marine and general automotive sectors. For more information, please visit www.Naxcer.com.