Focus Area #4: Base of the Future, Passive Performance "NetZero Ready" Autonomous Expeditionary Buildings

The Air Force operates in extremely challenging environments worldwide.  Currently, private sector architects and engineers are building cost-effective NetZero buildings for private clients.  The Air Force needs to invest in demonstration projects of these private-sector technologies to evaluate their performance in the field under extreme conditions.  Passive ultra-high-performance buildings are an integrated technology solution which requires the demonstration and evaluation of the whole system.  The opportunity for the Air Force is to adopt commercial technologies in order to create a NetZero RLB, relocatable building system, where the exact same building can be deployed either in the desert or the arctic.  One product, a single design for worldwide deployment ensuring mission success. The challenge is to integrate commercial technologies into a new NetZero RLB capability and form factor to solve the deployment problems of the DoD and create the durable resilient expeditionary base of the future. The enabling technology which Modula S developed is a 6.5” thick, low cost, lightweight, code compliant insulation assembly rated at R-60.  The residential version of this system is in use and has been tested at extreme temperatures, -30°F to 120°F, by LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Modula S proposes to implement our commercial technical capabilities by creating the Modula FLEX FX relocatable building system for the DoD.  This system is manufactured in the United States, is ISO certified for worldwide shipping and can be rapidly deployed.  The FLEX FX RLB is a unique product specifically designed for extreme environmental conditions to meet the needs of military and humanitarian disaster relief missions. The Modula S ecosystem provides a superior solution for expeditionary bases today and as a platform technology we can implement emerging future capabilities which the Air Force will be deploying at expeditionary locations worldwide.