Really Fast-Built Houses

Record-Breaking Concrete--22-minute set (Concrete Construction, November 2005) reports on the 2 Hour House project in Tyler Texas. According to the article, the goal of the project was to construct a home from the ground up in less than two and one-half hours. Two  teams competed to complete 2160 sf homes including concrete slab on grade, three bedrooms, two baths, two-car garages, and full landscaping in the allotted time. Of particular note for readers of this particular publication, was the specially formulated concrete with a 22-minute set time.