Major Canadian News Medium Spotlights Monolithic Dome Home
January 23, 2006
by Freda Parker
CBC News describes itself as one of Canada's "largest cultural institutions" (www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/home.asp). And well it might since it broadcasts news and entertainment via radio, television and the World Wide Web,in both English and French to all of Canada.
On January 4, 2006, this mass communicator published a website article about the Monolithic Dome home of Mike Forsyth and Lynn Cain of Red Deer in Alberta (www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/01/04/dome_home060104.html).
While not calling it a "Monolithic Dome," CBC News did say that this "commercially built 'dome home' ... will be twice as energy efficient as the latest houses built to today's standards. Sunlight will heat the floor. Solar panels mean no power bills."
Constructed by Rob Phillips, president of Canadian Dome Industries, Ltd. this dome-home is 55 feet in diameter and 19.25 feet high. To keep construction costs to a minimum, Mr. Forsyth and Ms. Cain will be finishing much of the interior themselves.
In addition to the Forsyth-Cain home, CBC News talked about the two domes -- but again refraining from calling them "Monolithic Domes" -- built for the First Baptist Church in Lacombe, another Alberta community. The article does, however, quote Ken Poffenroth of the church as saying, "If we can believe what our engineers tells us, this building with a little over 16,000 square feet is going to cost about the same to heat as something with approximately 6,000 square feet."
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