This Nova Scotia home had minimal impact on indigenous vegetation. Instead of excavating a full basement, eight holes were hand dug to pour Fast-Tube™ concrete columns.

WHY FAST-TUBE™ IS GREEN

1. Fast-Tube™ Conserves Natural Resources:
   Concrete columns are typically formed using bulky cardboard tubes. The picture to the right shows a green project in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia which used eight 10" diameter Fast-Tube™ forms about 6' high. All of them were shipped in a Purolator® pouch across Canada for $12.00. The equivalent cardboard forms would have taken up 33 cubic feet of space and cost over $200.00 for shipment. This extraordinary efficiency conserves our natural resources as follows:

   • Space savings reduce storage costs throughout the distribution channel (Fast-Tube™ takes up 1% of the space of cardboard)

   • Weight savings reduce transportation costs (Fast-Tube™ weights 10% of cardboard)

Cardboard column forms, cut from 12' lengths are very wasteful.

2. Fast-Tube™ Prevents Waste: Cardboard column forms are sold in short lengths of 8' or 12'. When a contractor forms a 9' column, he throws away 3', wasting money and burdening our landfills.
   
   Fast-Tube™ comes on 120' rolls and is cut to length on the jobsite, eliminating waste and reducing the number of visits the contractor makes to the lumberyard.

3. Fast-Tube™ Contributes to LEED® projects: Click here for details.