1. CBS Structures, Inc. Affordable Durable Proven Housing
Used by the USA Department of Defense since 1999

2. Letter From CBS Structures’ President
Since our inception Composite Building Systems, Inc. (CBS) goal has been to produce a very high quality panel house at an affordable cost. In order to accomplish this we do, have done and will continue to do research and development (R&D) with our product. A key component of our R&D is testing. Following is a compilation of prior testing of our product and approvals granted.

3. Approvals
HUD – Housing and Urban Development Agency, USA Government Agency
FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Association, USA Government Agency
AMHA – Alabama Manufactured Housing Association USA – State Government Agency
Government of India – Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals and Directorate of Quality DGS&D REGN/AHM/S – 63/2004D – PAN NO. AABCD7873N
International Building Code

4. Approvals
Approval from all of these agencies allow us to manufacture and ship our product in the U.S. and abroad. As you know we have secured business from the Department of Defense, U.S. Military Boeing, Lockheed and many other government contractors. Also, we built a plant and manufactured product in India.
Testing for agency approval was/is very stringent. We have met or exceeded requirements at every level of testing. Below are the test conducted by CBS to obtain government agency approval.

5. Storm Resistance Test
Storm Resistance Test – (FEMA Test Data) Our structures have been exposed to three devastating hurricanes and numerous tornadoes. In all cases there was minimal damage to our product with little inconvenience to the home owner.  The Wind Science and Engineering Division of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas successfully tested our composite dome panels to hurricane shelter standards in May 2006.

6. Storm Resistance Test
 Testing was consistent with the impact guidelines of the Florida Building Code, ASTM 1886E/1996E and FEMA 320 and FEMA 361.  The test requires 2 shots on 2 separate panels of a 9 lb, 2 x 4, fired at a speed of 88 MPH at the exterior of the panel with no penetration of debris on the interior side. This test represents the type of debris typically seen flying around in a 220 MPH wind.

7. Storm Resistance Test
 We also had a specially built panel successfully pass the tornado shelter standard. This test consists of 3 separate shots of a 15 lb. 2 x 4, fired at a speed of 100 MPH. This represents the typical debris in a 250 MPH wind.

8. Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency – Product was tested by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a government owned entity providing energy for 7 states in the U.S. Our panel home proved to be more energy efficient than TVA’s best super saver home. Kuykendall and Associates, P.C. also tested our panels in 2000 for energy efficiency. Results were we met the requirements of the 1998 edition of the international one and two family dwelling code and the 1992 edition of the Cabo Model Energy Code.

9. Fire Resistance Test
Fire Resistance Test – December 2009 Intertek Testing Services, Inc. test CBS panels to evaluate heat release and flame spread properties. All testing met the criteria of the 2006 International Building Code (IBC) CBS applies a fire retardant resin to every panel in our manufacturing process. This allows our structures to have a USA Class A fire rating.

10. Wind Loads
Wind Loads – We’ve had our product tested various times for wind loads and structural integrity. Ineel Wind Storm Test Factory was first to test our product, it met or exceeded all their requirements. We had structural test performed by renowned engineer Dr. Richard Avent at Mississippi State University. We easily met or exceeded requirements.

11. Wind Loads
Law Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. of Birmingham, AL, USA, conducted two strength test of our panels. The first was a maximum load per linear foot using 9 sample panels. Results showed an outstanding average of pounds per linear foot. The second test was the tensile strength (ability to break). It scored a remarkable 10,830 pounds per inch (psi). Acosta Engineering of El Paso, TX, USA conducted a structural analysis of our product in Their report stated our product met the requirements of the International Building Code.

12. As you know, our product is very durable, maintenance free, rot and pest free, strong, lightweight and long lasting (300 + Life). This didn’t happen over night or by accident. Lots of hard work and research was involved. Our new state of the art panel with our super structure beam every 21 inches allows us to produce the strongest, most durable panel yet.
Very truly yours,
Dicky Howard Sparks
President, CBS Structures Inc.
5 Murphy Street
Tishomingo, MS 38873
U.S.A.

13. December 13 Press Release: CBS Structures Inc
December 13 Press Release: CBS Structures Inc. Helps Shelter Africa With "Tropicalized House" Project
CBS STRUCTURES WORKING WITH ONDO STATE IN NIGERIA ON THEIR SCHOOL AND HOUSING NEEDS. (PRNewsFoto/CBS Structures Inc.) NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS Structures Inc. announced today that it is introducing its "Tropicalized House" to Africa.

14. CBS Structures Inc. Helps Shelter Africa With "Tropicalized House" Project
CBS Structures, Inc. has been building its specialty fiberglass buildings for over 34 years and is now rapidly expanding in the tropical climates of the frontier markets because of surging demand.  In 1999, CBS built for the US Department of Defense specialty hurricane and typhoon proof buildings in the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. The Dept. of Defense is now increasing that order.

15. CBS Structures Inc. Helps Shelter Africa With "Tropicalized House" Project
CBS Structures is now implementing in Africa the same CBS specialty fiberglass/foam building technology which works very well for the USA Department of Defense.

16. CBS Structures Inc. Helps Shelter Africa With "Tropicalized House" Project
In addition to the USA Department of Defense, CBS Structures' buildings have been tested under severe weather conditions and approved by USA Federal Agencies-USA Department of Housing (HUD), and the USA Federal Emergency Management (FEMA).  The US States of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas have tested CBS product with favorable results. 

17. CBS Structures Inc. Helps Shelter Africa With "Tropicalized House" Project
Dicky Howard Sparks, President of CBS Structures Inc., observed- "We just finished our third trip to Africa and the demand for CBS Structures buildings for housing, schools, hospitals, college dormitories, and municipal buildings was overwhelming. Our buildings require almost no maintenance and are assembled in 4 hours. There is tremendous interest in our specially developed "bullet proof“ house also."

18. CBS Structures Inc. Helps Shelter Africa With "Tropicalized House" Project
CBS Structures developed 2 unique programs to make housing more affordable: standardization of the "alpha building block" and the "Mommy Mae Housing Finance" program. These 2 programs coupled together provide the foundation for a housing policy that will spread across Africa.

19. CBS Structures Inc. Helps Shelter Africa With "Tropicalized House" Project
Emanuel Oladunni is President of GMV Advantage Ltd., Lagos, Nigeria. Mr. Oladunni, explained "when I brought the CBS people, their building samples and explanation video throughout Nigerian communities there was tremendous interest. Many people in Africa live in substandard living quarters and the CBS house lifted their spirits and hopes for a brighter future."

20. CBS Structures Inc. Helps Shelter Africa With "Tropicalized House" Project
The demand for affordable housing as Africa rapidly urbanizes is astounding. In Nigeria alone, officials state Nigeria has a "housing deficit of 23 million and at least one million homes must be built in Nigeria every year to catch up. Future housing need is growing because the Continent of Africa has the youngest population in the world, at 18.6 years.

21. Top 5 benefits of Prefabricated Homes
Prefabricated houses, also known as modular homes or prefabs, are homes built in factories in standard sections that are later transported and assembled on-site.

22. Prefabricated construction has gained popularity over the years due to the following benefits:
1.) Design flexibility – Prefabs offer a range of house plans to choose from and hundreds of options to customize the house you select. Depending on your local building code, you can modify the plan to suit your construction specification – be it a single level or a multi level house.

23. Prefabricated construction has gained popularity over the years due to the following benefits:
2.) Reduced construction time – A modular home is typically built in about 30 per cent the time required to construct a site built house. This is because construction work – foundation (on-site) and home construction (at the factory) – can be done concurrently thus saving a lot of time over a site built home.
In addition, there are no delays from weather restrictions, material theft or contractor problems as may be the norm with a site built home.

24. Prefabricated construction has gained popularity over the years due to the following benefits:
3.) Reduced construction costs – The cost of prefabricated houses is significantly lower than that of a site built home. This is mainly because manufacturers usually buy building supplies in huge volumes (at a discount) and additional savings reflect in the cost of the finished house. READ: It’s prefab-ulous! Builders bet big on prefabricated housing

25. Prefabricated construction has gained popularity over the years due to the following benefits:
Also, because prefabs are built within a shorter span of time, the amount of interest the home-owner pays on a home loan is significantly reduced – thereby reducing the construction cost.

26. Prefabricated construction has gained popularity over the years due to the following benefits:
4.) High quality – Because modular homes are built in factories, they are subjected to a more demanding procedure than regular homes. The plans must be approved prior to construction and the homes must go through frequent inspections from government officials.

27. Prefabricated construction has gained popularity over the years due to the following benefits:
5.) Environmentally friendly – Prefabs require less material than site built homes. Excess materials are re-used for other homes. Also, in case a modular house is dismantled the prefabs can be used to make another home or stored for a future construction project. This means this technology has minimal wastage and minimal impact on the environment.

28. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
If deliberately targeted, housing has the potential of becoming the engine that drives the process of sustainable socio-economic development in any country. The World Bank has established that every $1 appropriately invested in the housing sector, generates an economy-wide multiplier effect of between $5 and $12. Housing is one of the principal sectors that can revitalize economic growth, with shelter recognized as one of the tools of development.

29. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
Investment in housing and related infrastructure and services have effects on the national income that go far beyond the direct investment itself by triggering forward and backward linkages through additional investments in production, transportation and marketing of building materials. Uganda has the potential to positively harness the economic multiplier effect by capitalizing on the housing sector's financial and social linkages and by prioritizing it as one of the primary growth sectors for our economy - as already highlighted in the National Development Plan.

30. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
Writing in the journal Up And Down Wall Street in August 2006 on the "Multiplier effect of each dollar spent on housing in economy," Alan Abelson argued that for every $1 spent in housing, $1.27 is generated in economic activity. The total multiplier for output and employment in the construction industry is estimated to be times, i.e., for every $1m increase in construction output, there is an increase in overall economic output of $2.9m.

31. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
According to the National Development Plan, housing is one of the primary growth sectors. The share of construction in GDP growth was 7.1% in 2011, second only to agriculture. However, the current allocation in the budget to the housing sector is 0.3% of the approved budget (Shs 24bn), making it the second most underfunded sectors, after ICT which got 0.1%.

32. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
The effects of this lack of prioritization is the staggering housing backlog levels which, according to the State of Uganda Population Report 2007, is about 1.6 million units nationally. The report also shows that the urban population growth rate of 5.1% and 3.2% for the national population indicates that by 2015, the national backlog will be approximately 2.3 million units.

33. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
Inadequate production of this category of housing is associated with under-investment by both the public and the private sectors. Public sector involvement in housing development has been declining over the years, while the private sector has mainly catered for upper middle and high-income groups, leaving the lower middle and low-income brackets unattended.

34. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
Despite this being a big opportunity for them, private sector players have been unable to satisfy the vast market for affordable housing. In order to subsidize the factors affecting delivery of affordable housing (production, land, infrastructure, taxes, building materials and cost of finance), some government investment in housing is required.

35. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
Previously, the government provided houses for civil servants to whom it later sold the units, but today the government's role in affordable housing is only through facilitation of the private sector. More support is needed, though, for example through tax exemptions for affordable houses, mortgage incentives to selected affordable housing schemes, and provision of the infrastructure aspects of housing development.

36. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
While Uganda's economic performance was at par with that of countries such as Kenya, Ghana and Malaysia in the early 1970s, these economies have since improved significantly ahead of Uganda's and this has been greatly attributed to their heavy investment in infrastructure. To achieve the government objectives of growth, employment and socio-economic transformation for prosperity, housing is an avenue the government needs to emphasize.

37. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
Due to limited resources, linkages with other infrastructure sectors should be explored to allocate aspects of, for example, the road and energy funds. With a projected per capita income of $1,300 per annum, if we assume 50% of household income is allocated towards housing the effective demand would be for units worth $30,000, assuming a 25-year 5% interest mortgage (with government subsidies in taxes, mortgages and infrastructure).

38. Housing is a Key Potential Economic Multiplier for Uganda
If the cost of sales is projected at 80%, units can be built at $25,000. This will create a contribution to the GDP of $250,000,000 per 10,000 units constructed. Using the Philippines multiplier of 16, the current housing backlog has a potential ripple effect of $4 trillion on the economy if 10,000 units are produced annually.

39. CBS Structures, Inc. 4 Bedroom Plan

40. CBS Structures, Inc. 3 Bedroom Plan

41. Alpha House – 1 Bedroom

42. CBS Structures, Inc. 100 Bedroom Condominium

43. CBS Structures Inc. “Kunday” Schoolroom Campus Floor Plan

44. CBS/Omni Standard Classroom “KUNDAY” School Room

45. CBS Structures, Inc. Police Station 1,505 Square Meters Floor Plan

46. CBS Structures, Inc. Bullet Proof Police Station 877 Square Meters

47. CBS Structures, Inc. Dormitory Site Plan

48. CBS Structures, Inc. Dormitory Building

49. So far we have homes all over the world!
Nigeria, Niger, Japan, the Marshall Islands, all over India, Nepal,
Afghanistan and Australia.