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2 unusual facts about drywall


Henrik Lund-Nielsen

Based on a world record of 80% recycling rate for gypsum waste in Denmark, he grew the company from an initially marginal Danish presence to the world leader in recycling of gypsum plasterboard (drywall) waste with several European subsidiaries and business in the US and Asia.

Type X

Type X Drywall, a fire-resistant formulation for construction wallboard


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Compressed earth block

Mold resistant: there is no cellulose material - such as in wood, Oriented Strand Board or drywall - that can host mold or rot

Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation

The current incarnation of the Habitat, composed entirely of drywall with metal supports, is made up of seven modules: the Control Room, Interlock, Longhouse, Hotlab, Washroom, Engineering Closet, and Airlock.

QuietRock

QuietRock is a brand of internally damped drywall panel by Quiet Solution (aka Serious Materials and Serious Energy), an American manufacturer of building materials started by Kevin Surace .

Vincent DiNapoli

DiNapoli later became close to the next District Council President, Paschal McGuinness, and the two men continued to enforce a mob tax on all drywall construction in New York.

DiNapoli secretly owned Cambridge Drywall and Inner-City Drywall, which became one of the biggest developers in Harlem and the South Bronx, and received $32 million in city contracts in 1988 alone.

Wade Guyton

In 2009, Guyton and Kelley Walker were invited by Daniel Birnbaum to participate at the Venice Biennale, where they printed scanned bananas and Southern California beach colors on canvases and slabs of drywall at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.


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