Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the F.O.C. podcast show hosted by yours truly, Kyle McLaughlin and sponsored by Northstar Technologies Group.

Thank you, as always, for joining us on this awesome, awesome show we got. We got a great episode for you today. It is a continuation of the previous episode, which is part one, this being part two of a three part series. For going through the advanced performance of North Star Technologies and its composite building systems and all of the great things that we do here.

So this is a listen, a long presentation, which you will see live on YouTube as well, if you want to see the actual slideshow, you'll be able to not only see it there, Facebook and Instagram, but also download it, and use it for your own use. It will be on our website as well. It is chock full of great information, great technical details, great specs on our system, and some good case studies.

So that's what I'm working off of today. And this is the second part of that. So let's dive right back in where we left off on the last episode. So, just a quick recap. We were going through features and benefits. So we talked about fire resistance. We talked about the weight to strength ratio. We talked about the hurricane resistance.

We talked about energy efficiency which is huge for us. Water resistance, ballistic rating, impact rating. And then obviously mold and corrosion, and any degradation. And then how those benefits correlate to building. Right. Whether it's residential or commercial construction. There are a host of benefits picking up on this next slide here. We're talking about advanced storm safety.

So whether you're in Florida, whether you're in Louisiana, New Orleans, whether you're in South Texas, in North Carolina, South Carolina, areas in Georgia that are exposed to high velocity hurricanes, high velocity zones, otherwise known as high velocity hurricane zones, you are going to need some sort of safety, right? In a lot of building systems today are made to what's called code minimum, and code minimum is essentially just doing something to the bare as it sounds.

So the extreme bare minimum just enough to get that passing mark. So I think in school that's considered a C, which is average. And that's not what anybody should strive to be, especially when it comes to building their homes or buildings that they work out of, right, where they keep their most, important materials, where they keep their family, where they keep, you know, their businesses.

That should not be made to an average standard that should be made for the absolute best standard that it possibly could be made. And that's a big part of our company mission. That's a big part of our motto, our core values. And that's what we do, what we do to protect our home, to protect our loved ones, to protect our place of businesses, our government, our school, our kids.

Go to, you know, spend a lot of time libraries, all these, all these really important areas that are being built to the absolute minimum should not be right, especially when it comes in areas like Florida where storm safety is such a concern. Right. So we have a few things that, that the system really works, well, against.

So number one being water and wind, we have a full dry seal system that ensures zero permeation by winter water. The impact rating that we've talked about previously, which is obviously up to 250 miles an hour, the entire structure is completely impact resistant. Right. And that includes your windows and doors. Everything is storm rated. We use hurricane proof for hurricane standard windows.

The same thing with doors and garage doors, sliders or fixed windows. Doesn't matter. From a communication standpoint, this is important. When power goes out. You know, our system is fully RF transparent. So what does RF mean? It's radio frequency. So whether it's Wi-Fi whether whether it's radio, whether it's telephone, having a transparent building system allows for streamlined communication, especially when, I don't know if you've ever been through a hurricane or through a natural disaster.

The phone service tends to go out, right, or becomes really limited. So, reducing your limitations so that even further by having an RF transparent building is going to be that much more beneficial for you if you're in a situation where you need to communicate. Right. Corrosion. We have no corrosion or degradation from water or chemicals, which we've gone over before, but it's important to know again during a storm or certain things can flood or have spillage from fuel, from gasoline, from different areas where your home is being exposed to liquids and materials that it's not normally exposed to due to a flood.

Right. We had a lot of, flooding that happened during Ian and that surge. Water brought through, unfortunately sewage. It brought through a certain amount of gasoline and oils and different, liquids in the water that normally wouldn't be there. So, again, your house being exposed to these materials, it's important that it doesn't aggregate. Right. Again, mold, being a big part of that as well.

We saw a lot of the homes that flooded. Unfortunately, that immediately got mold infections. So, we don't want to have that happen, obviously, to our homes. And you want to have a building system that's going to be resilient towards that or against that. Conductivity is a big one, too. It is a non-conductive material as opposed to metal.

For example, I talked previous episodes about people building either a small footprint homes or tiny homes or barn minimums out of metal. And while that may seem like a good idea from a cost standpoint, it is not a good idea from a store safety standpoint, or even just a safety standpoint in general. So, consider that when you are, looking at building a building out of metal, you're going to have high conductivity and high thermal transfer, meaning that your home or your commercial building won't be as energy efficient if you're making things out of highly conductive materials.

Right? Makes sense. Fire up to one hour fire resistance for additional protection. That is not something that most building systems can claim. We are currently the only residential building system that has any sort of fire rating associated to it. Most fire ratings and if for some odd reason are only limited to commercial buildings, they don't have fire rating standards for residential buildings, which is strange considering homes is where we have our loved ones, or kids or pets or families.

Commercial buildings were, although equally as important, don't usually house, our loved ones. Right. So you would think that there would be a fire rating standard for homes? There isn't. So we created one. Hence the Northstar Homes Fire rating features. If you're looking at this on YouTube or somewhere where you can see my screen, you're going to see a video here, and I'll describe it to those of you that are just listening on the podcast, but you're going to see a video here.

This is live footage that I'm playing right now from Hurricane Ian, one of our builds over on 111 Street and which is on the north side of Naples Park, was exposed to peak winds at 185 miles an hour during, Hurricane Ian's impact here in Naples, Florida. So normally a builder will protect, their existing builds that are in the shell stage.

Shell stage, meaning that they're in a stage where the windows and the doors haven't been installed yet. They'll do that using plywood normally, or some sort of barrier that seals that door window opening from the outside elements. Reason being that if wind gets in there at a high speed, it could actually blow off the roof or blow off other parts of the home, including areas that are made of wood right?

Normally doesn't happen with concrete, too much more so with wood. But nonetheless, you want to cover that up because it could blow up, your floor assemblies. Any framing that you have in the interior and, of course, your trusses and your roof sheathing, we, as you can see on this video, left that completely exposed. And, a lot of that was to, to put our, you know, our money where your mouth is, right.

The proof is in the pudding. If we're claiming all of these really, really high end safety features and benefits that are not common in the building industry, what better way to display it than this, right? So we did not seal any of the door openings. We did not cover any of the window openings. We left that exactly as this.

And there was absolutely zero zero damage to that home during peak winds of 185 miles an hour. And I would challenge any other builder, hopefully. I mean, eventually you we'll have another storm, but not hopefully not anytime soon. To leave a normal, traditionally built house in this stage of construction exposed and see if anything happens to it.

Because, undoubtedly something would. But due to the way that we build these homes, the materials that we use, how they're engineered, how they're manufactured, how they're designed, how they come together, how we construct them, nothing happened to this home. And that's an incredible claim. And that's something that we highlight, not only on this slide, but a lot of the times when we're educating the public about construction methods and what's most effective and what's more safe, right.

And what's going to save you money over the long term. Right? Not the short term. It's going to be building a North Star home. And this is an incredible benefit and an incredible case study to show. And we do have a little footnote there that says were approved for the construction of emergency management storm shelters. Why is that even a bullet point in here?

It's extremely important because during a hurricane, normally there's set evacuation areas, right. Normally it's a school or a government building. They're they're what's classified as an emergency management storm shelter that the term that's used in construction when they're where there's buildings that are built to withstand 185 mile an hour winds, right, or impact rating, for that matter.

So because we're built up to 250, when you're building a North Star home, you're purchasing and you're living in an emergency management certified storm shelter, believe it or not. So there's no need for you to evacuate anywhere. And I'm not by any means saying you shouldn't evacuate during next storm. If you're in a North Star home, you know, obviously use your better judgment.

But from the standpoint of being exposed to impact and wind, you won't have anything to worry about. In these homes. We are built to the same, actually. We receive these standards, of these emergency management shelters. And again, they're all built, depending on the area and the location and the use of the building, they could be built up to 250 miles an hour or two, but they're definitely not exceeding that.

So you'll be safe in a North Star home, just as you would an evacuation shelter. The next slide talks about our innovative technologies. Right. So it gives you a little bit of a of an explainer. For those of you who can't see my screen, I'll explain it as best as I can. There's three real steps that we go through, when it comes to designing and manufacturing and engineering and eventually building the home.

Right. A lot of that happens through what I would say three critical channels. First one being the state of the art software that we use. So we we 3D model every single home that we design, engineer, manufacture and build. Everything starts in a 3D digital environment. And we use a system called, SolidWorks. We've actually used a system called Revit. Because, undoubtedly something would. But due to the way that we build these homes, the materials that we use, how they're engineered, how they're manufactured, how they're designed, how they come together, how we construct them, nothing happened to this home. And that's an incredible claim. And that's something that we highlight, not only on this slide, but a lot of the times when we're educating the public about construction methods and what's most effective and what's more safe, right.

And what's going to save you money over the long term. Right? Not the short term. It's going to be building a North Star home. And this is an incredible benefit and an incredible case study to show. And we do have a little footnote there that says were approved for the construction of emergency management storm shelters. Why is that even a bullet point in here?

It's extremely important because during a hurricane, normally there's set evacuation areas, right. Normally it's a school or a government building. They're they're what's classified as an emergency management storm shelter that the term that's used in construction when they're where there's buildings that are built to withstand 185 mile an hour winds, right, or impact rating, for that matter.

So because we're built up to 250, when you're building a North Star home, you're purchasing and you're living in an emergency management certified storm shelter, believe it or not. So there's no need for you to evacuate anywhere. And I'm not by any means saying you shouldn't evacuate during next storm. If you're in a North Star home, you know, obviously use your better judgment.

But from the standpoint of being exposed to impact and wind, you won't have anything to worry about. In these homes. We are built to the same, actually. We receive these standards, of these emergency management shelters. And again, they're all built, depending on the area and the location and the use of the building, they could be built up to 250 miles an hour or two, but they're definitely not exceeding that.

So you'll be safe in a North Star home, just as you would an evacuation shelter. The next slide talks about our innovative technologies. Right. So it gives you a little bit of a of an explainer. For those of you who can't see my screen, I'll explain it as best as I can. There's three real steps that we go through, when it comes to designing and manufacturing and engineering and eventually building the home.

Right. A lot of that happens through what I would say three critical channels. First one being the state of the art software that we use. So we we 3D model every single home that we design, engineer, manufacture and build. Everything starts in a 3D digital environment. And we use a system called, SolidWorks. We've actually used a system called Revit.