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November 20 - 2 pm - LSC 304 - Dan Phillips' Presentation

Have you ever wondered what it’s like living in a house built with recycled materials? Dan Phillips, Home Designer/Builder and Owner of The Phoenix Commotion, will discuss his unique homes in a presentation on Thursday, November 20, at 2:00 p.m., in Lowman Student Center Room 304. 

Phillips’s Huntsville-based building company, The Phoenix Commotion, constructs houses from free, salvaged and recycled materials. The major objectives of the company are to:

• Reduce the landfill burden,
• Provide affordable housing to targeted groups (single mothers, low-income families, and artists), and
• Train unskilled workers to help give them marketable skills.

The presentation will be of interest to anyone concerned about environmental conservation and affordable housing.  It will explore non-traditional building techniques, which are developed from the mountains of trash produced in this country, resulting in outrageous designs.  This presentation is free and open to the public. 

A tour of the current project (the “Bone House”) and the most recent project (the “Tree House”) will immediately follow the lecture (the tour will conclude by approximately 4:00 p.m.).  The tour is available on a first-come, first-served basis and the university will provide passenger vans for tour participants.  To sign up for the tour, email the Office of Student Success Initiatives at renaerowe@shsu.edu, with the word TOUR in the subject line. 

The presentation and tour are sponsored by the Bearkats Read to Succeed Program and the Office of the President.