In March, a group of students from Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, spent their spring break building disaster-resistant dome homes in Mexico. Groups of students from SUU have been traveling to Mexico for the past seven years, donating time and resources to build homes, but this was the first time they used the new technology to build dome houses.
Last winter, SUU Construction Management Prof. Boyd Fife met with David South, Monolithic Dome Institute president, to discuss the possibility of transitioning from building conventional homes to the dome structures. The dome design makes the homes more resistant to disasters and uses fewer materials.