My father is building a house in Mass out of steel. The walls are made of super insulated steel panels supported by a steel fram and jointed with foam.
He was a little delayed in getting the heating system going but apparently all he need is four space heaters to heat a five thousand suare foot house to 60 degrres while it is -2 F outside.
This was amazing to me because I used to spend enormous amounts of money on oil heat and space heaters and I was still not that warm.
Here is some general info about these panels: PATH Case Study
Here is the blog on the steel house: Strategy to Design
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