heuer labs LLC

Post-Consumer waste plastic repurposing:

Both our home building blocks and our Factory use our new building material, one of the recipes that we have is made up of 95% recaptured EPS, Expanded Polystyrene, aka white Styrofoam, a commonly used packing material and known problematic waste item.

 

The building block that we developed is an easy-to-use building material, (essentially large Legos) primarily for home construction. We offer this product through a micro manufacturing plant that can be shipped anywhere around the world and we show those we serve how to build high quality homes at a fraction of the cost of most homes. Also, we teach the ambitious indigenous people that we serve how to create their own small business of building homes for others.

 

Both my home building blocks and my Portable Rapid Home Building Factory (a very large additive machining device on steroids) use my new building material, one of the recipes that we have is made up of 95% recaptured EPS.

 

We do have the capacity to use a lot more waste plastics in what we are heading to do, which is building millions of homes. I can envision using recaptured waste hard plastics from landfills and Oceans in the homes that I build. We could recapture the plastic, grind it into a small aggregate and mix it with a binder such as; fly ash, Bio cement, or Portland.

 

 

HISTORY:

Heuer Labs LLC owner Mitch Heuer, a builder, teacher and
Realtor from Montana with a vision to efficiently create quality sustainable homes for people in need of housing around the globe. He is an inventor with innovative ideas for turning post-consumer waste and locally available materials into homes.

 

He sees the inaccessibility of housing in the communities where he works and is inspired to be a part of the solution. With experience in straw bale construction, natural home building, conventional construction, modular home construction, factory-built homes, tiny home construction, and more. Mitch, along with his team of passionate volunteers, builders, designers, and engineers has what it takes to bring solutions to reality.​

 

Why? Why is Mitch undaunted and passionate about helping to fix the housing crisis? Perhaps the answer is a combination of DNA, life experiences and a rebel/savior spirit. Mitch has always been an advocate for the underdog, willing to teach others to fish, give others a hand up but not a hand out. After the recession Mitch suffered great losses and ended up broke, busted, alone and homeless living in a utility trailer in a storage yard for six months, most likely had some form of PTSD, yet he was shown blessings from above and was fortunate to start a small business that proved good financially and mentally healing from being in community with other people and especially clients that needed his expertise in the services that he provided in mobile RV repair. He was further blessed with acquiring owner finance on a fixer-upper home while having no credit due to the difficulties of the recession.

 

About 10 years while Mitch was working in Apache Junction, Arizona he was exposed to a building product that used recycled waste and he found it intriguing enough to eventually develop his own form of an improved building block and from that introduction and work has led him to what is now the development of the Portable Rapid Homebuilding Factory.

 

Years of experience has successfully shown Mitch as a builder and as a realtor why home ownership is so tough and why conventional building is cost prohibitive for the millions of those in need. Some contributing factors are the high level of skilled labor required, the lacking availability of those skilled people, land availability, the high and rising cost of building materials. We are fixing that and ushering in a paradigm shift.​

 

We are driven due in part to the poor performance of other entities, including the Red Cross, to actually build homes for those in need.

 

Link to the Red Cross failure in Haiti.​

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes#:~:text=But%20in%20fact%2C%20the%20Red,on%20the%20ground%20in%20Haiti.&text=The%20Red%20Cross%20says%20it,in%20all%20of%20Haiti%3A%20six

 

We walk the walk and build homes… Together with your help we will be building a lot of homes rapidly!

 

Teaching others to duplicate: We teach those we serve to help them selves, by teaching them how to use our equipment, how to build homes and to how to create their own small businesses, thereby setting them up for decades of sustainable building and economic independence.

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Phased home construction, mortgages and ownership:   Our "Phased" home program gives the home owner a master design that can be built, added on to easily and financed in phases, this allows for growth and costs in the control of the end user.

 

Homeless Transitional Housing Program:

We have designed and engineered small, durable, efficient homes on stilts placed in downtown parking lots in metropolitan areas. This program utilizes un-used prime and vacant real estate in areas where homelessness is prevalent. The participants will have access to composting toilets, minimal fresh water, (we recycle grey water), laundry and shower service trucks, all of which is placed in temporary locations with the intent to transition the homeless to a permanent housing solution.

 

BUILD to LIVE is part of our Homeless transitional housing program. Individuals in our transitional housing will be required to work at the home manufacturing facilities or other support systems we place in each community. Participants will benefit in multiple ways:

 

1. structured and controlled work environment

2. vested interest in their near future home ownership

3. opportunity to hone valuable skills and develop a sense of community in the process.