Grid beam testimonials

What the experts say about grid beam

"Grid beam amounts to an adult Erector Set that enables ordinary citizens to 'wrench-build' a variety of machines and structures without expensive engineering and machine shop services.... Working prototypes can thus be constructed quickly right from crude sketches, without even a modest home shop. The principle seems obvious, but — as with all modular systems — there are tricky, subtle details that must dance compatibly for the system to work. The authors have everything dancing very smoothly indeed."

Jay Baldwin, Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at California College of the Arts, and author of BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today

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This book will inspire you to invent! As we enter the post carbon age, How to build with Grid Beam will provide useful techniques and projects for amateurs and experts alike to make quick and sturdy structures without the use of power tools. This is a fun and practical guide with which to foster a culture of reuse and enable the process of relocalization — living locally with much less energy.

Julian Darley, President Post Carbon Institute

"What I liked about the book is its ability to get all of us interested in being designers, inventors and builders. It could start a movement."

John Todd, Ph.D., Research Professor and Distinguished Lecturer, The University of Vermont, inventor of the living machine, and a principal in Todd Ecological Inc., Woods Hole, MA.

"The Jergenson brothers are the masters of grid beam construction. Their amazing technology is the stuff that rigid, rectilinear, realistic dreams are made from."

Richard Perez, Publisher of Home Power

Having grown up with a wrench in one hand and a pencil in another I appreciate bare steel hardware. If you want to build a prototype, a temporary structure, a vehicle, a small building, or the most bizarre device you could possibly imagine, then grid beam technology is the route to success, and Phil, Richard and Wilma are your guides. The brilliance of grid beam is simplicity. It is a way of providing structure to support your imagination, without the structure defining the project.

Christopher Swan, author of Electric Water, entrepreneur, designer and writer

"Grid beam is a revolutionary building system that enables anyone to build a variety of structures without expensive wood shop services or equipment. Flexibility in design is yours. The photos and diagrams make it so simple. You can even make your own grid beam if you want. Now that's local sustainability at its finest!"

John Schaeffer, founder and president of Real Goods and the Solar Living Institute