

Mission
TECTA Systems™ is committed to simplifying the building process A rapid assembly, thermally efficient, permanent building chassis delivered as numbered components to your site in a container .....or pre-finished in the factory and delivered as modules. Low cost housing or emegency shelter in the Asian region could be delivered to site by truck or pick-up and assembled by families and neighbors under supervision by trained Tecta staff. This could cut the cost of construcion to

Shelter as a Basic Human Need
"To live somewhere means to develop a special relationship to space, time, luminosity, self and others. A house, in its concrete reality, brings support to certain aspects of individual psychological structuring, it is the ‘central reference point of human existence" (Relph 1976:20)


Sumatran Earthquakes
Sumatran Earthquake 2009 We experienced this quake at home then mobilized aid to help some of the tens of thousands who lost everthing. You can see how much concrete is invested in these buildings. Conventional construction gets very expensive when upgraded to deal with seismic loads like this. Our system was founded on the realisation that ICFs were not taking advantage of the stress skin potential of foam cores sandwitched between reinforced skins. Surf boards have been bu