Exup Inc

What do we do?

Conceived in the deserts of Iraq, Exup specializes in sales, design, consulting, and project management services for building “green” structures and communities in high threat, hostile, and post-disaster environments using H.I.D.E.S. principles.


 

 

  • Services

    • Turn-key building projects in high-threat, hostile, and post-disaster environments.


  • Products

    • Exup's main product is the HIAC, or House In A Container. This consists of a 40' shipping container with all the high-tech materials needed to build a H.I.D.E.S. structure. This container conforms to all international shipping codes, and comes with pictorial constructions designed to cross all language barriers. Exup manufactures these on demand for forward-thinking organizations and governments.


    Beginnings

    Conceived by a security guard working on a small camp just outside of Baghdad, the Exup idea was first aimed at addressing security issues in high-threat environments. By using resources (fuel & water) much more efficiently, and by producing energy renewably on-site, it is possible to dramatically increase security on a camp, lower operating costs, and positively impact both the local economy and the greater environment.

     

    The tsunami hits

    Almost as soon as the initial plan was written, a tsunami struck Indonesia, killing over 100,000 people and completely devastating a mid-size economy. Exup immediately began to apply the same H.I.D.E.S. principles to the Indonesia case, and included post-disaster projects in our available services.


    As the plan grew, the founders of Exup spoke with hundreds of security and building contractors, both "green" and conventional, gathering opinions, comparing notes, adding good ideas, winnowing out technical dead-ends.

     

    Katrina blows in

    At the end of August in 2005, Hurricane Katrina whirled through New Orleans and within a week Exup was contacted by representatives of the prime contractors for the clean-up and rebuild. Three months later, Exup founder Nik Hawks decided to bring world-class green-building problem solving to the company, and the prestigious Rocky Mountain Institute became involved and offered to assist with design-charettes.

     

    The future of Exup

    As we head in to 2006 and our second year of business, Exup is looking forward both to private equity investment and to working with the governments of the United States, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Indonesia to bring the Exup way of building to people in need throughout the world.

     

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