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Chronicles of the Design & Construction of Two Waterfront Hurricane Proof Dry Stack Modular Green Custom Homes
1. Villa Lagoon, Wilder Italian Style Home
2. Nasello Italian Style Home


Dennis Aluminum has made the roof support system for the elevator/ stair tower.

Mid-March, 2007

Elevator roof frame made by Dennis Aluminum Elevator roof framework
Closeup of Elevator roof frame

The flat plates at the end of the legs are wielded on and these plates are bolted onto the DAC-ART walls using Redhead fastening system. Redhead bolting system is a type of a molly-bolt, expansion bolt, ..it mushrooms the tighter you attach it, the bigger the expansion. We drilled holes into the concrete DAC-ART wall for these bolts. They are about a foot long and and 3/4 in in diameter. When some of these bolts accidentally got put in the wrong location, we tried to remove them using the crane and lifted a 1000 pound block out of the wall and this was only one bolt. We feel really good about the strength of the roof system we used.

Elevator roof frame mounting plate