I guess I am the new boy in the AIA HKC, to start I want to tell a little about myself.
I love the fluid stone: concrete for that I first practice by building using my idea of masonry concrete which becomes massive construction with 7,500 homes, eight schools and a shopping center in 15 months in Mexico City, 360 dwellings in one month in other location in Mexico City. Note than Mexico City has earthquakes frequent, no damaged reported in such buildings, which were for people of lower income. In Cancun, one 3 stories hotel and 10 houses, there: hurricanes, no damaged since around 40 years ago, for my masonry concrete practice.
Presently In the US I am a registered architect in California C 12555, expiration date 05/31/15. I did work for several architectural firms, until working by myself, after several work using wood framing, I always talk about the thousand of dwellings I built in Mexico using concrete, they said: no never will have a Building Permit using concrete. Then I design, obtain the Building Permit, and build a house with a monolithic envelope of reinforced concrete, poured in place, such house has a high insulation factor as necessary to save energy, plus resisting natural disasters, something necessary to avoid loss of dwellings, assets, and lives as occurred all around US, thousands of burned homes, flooded, tornado destroyed, hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides. Then people said, that is great, but is it patent?. It makes me applied for patented mi knowledge, which I did, I have at my name the patent US 8,429,876 B2.
I will be please of answer any questions regarding my Concrete Rib Construction Method, videos, brochures, or chatting about it.