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Success Stories

Perhaps the best way to understand the benefits of spray polyurethane foam (SPF) in building applications is to look at real-world success stories. As the cases below demonstrate, architects, builders, contractors, homeowners, building owners, and building occupants benefit from the high insulation value, durability, and cost effectiveness of SPF.

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SPF Helps New Jersey Housing Complex Reach LEED Platinum.

September 2011, in response to President Obama’s call to end homelessness, HELP USA broke ground on the Clinton Avenue Urban Renewal Project in Newark, N.J. The project, in partnership
with the Make It Right Foundation, was designed to provide 56 rental apartment units to low-income and veteran families in an area known since the 1970s for its dynamic and progressive approach to community and identity. Designed for LEED Gold, the property excelled at reaching for all sustainable and green technologies available and achieved a certified LEED Platinum status with the help of sprayfoam. (Full Story)

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SPF Brings Equality to Star Searching, Keeping the Heavens in View.

The 43-Meter equatorial telescope located at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia will spend many more years focused upon the heavens thanks to SPF. (Full Story)

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SPF Helps New LEED-Silver University Library Show its Creative Side.

Norfolk State University (NSU) students will enjoy a new library with wireless connectivity, high-tech resources from computers to video equipment, and a creative, comfortable, architecturally pleasing environment. The $41 million, 132,000 square foot Lyman Beecher Brooks Library is state of the art inside and out, and replaces the old library built in 1972, which had serious leaks and indoor air quality issues. (Full Story)

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Huge SPF Project Helps Family Business Maintain Competitive Position Bringing Chickens to Market

With over 400,000 chickens being processed daily, Fieldale Farms has a big operation to maintain. One of their major operating costs identified was energy expense. They needed to reduce their energy consumption, thereby reducing the processing cost per chicken to keep their prices competitive. Otherwise Fieldale was looking at a potential relocation of its operations to outside the United States. Determined to do what was needed to keep the family business employing Georgians, this hightech facility made the choice to go with SPF. (Full Story)

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SPF Insulation Reduces Homeowners’ Energy Consumption.

When John and Anne Bowling retired to the Roanoke, Virginia, area in 1997, they specified SPF insulation for their new, 2,240 SF ranch-style home. The Bowlings heated their home with liquid propane gas, and between August 2000 and July 2001, the propane company delivered 321 gallons of propane. Over the same period, ten similar homes in the area received an average of 769 gallons of propane. In other words, the Bowlings are using 58% less fuel than their neighbors. (Full Story)