Stub pages

UPDATED 17 Nov 2020

A stub page is an incomplete story, topic, event, or project page that needs more content. It’s not about length. It’s about completeness. Most stub pages are short placeholders for content to be improved later.

The stub concept comes from Wikipedia stubs where summary entries mark entries for later expansion. Of course, there are lots and lots of stub articles on Wikipedia. Probably too many, but it is a useful concept.

When writing about a topic, other ideas for unwritten pages come to mind that should be linked from the new content. The choice is to either write down a reminder, create the page later, and hopefully remember to come back and create the link. Or, create a stub page now, link to it from the new content, and have a curated list of stub pages to work on later.

That’s why we have stub pages.

Anyone wishing to contribute content should contact us.

Dome Technology

UPDATED 17 Nov 2020

Dome Technology is a Monolithic Dome construction company founded by Barry South in 1988 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. … read more

Urethane Foam: Magic Material - And the Best Kept Insulation Secret

UPDATED 9 Nov 2020

This book is a must-read for anyone with questions about the nature of urethane foam or its insulating qualities. Written by David B. South, who preceded his career as president of Monolithic by organizing and managing a successful urethane foam insulating business, the book combines personal anecdotes and experiences with tried-and-true, scientific data. … read more

Think Round: The Story of David B. South and The Monolithic Dome

UPDATED 9 Nov 2020

Written by Freda Parker to whom David told his story, this book is absolutely chockful of photographs, so you can see as well as read about the people and events David describes. Those events are true-life experiences and fond memories, many funny and some sad. David recalls his grandparents and parents, their triumphs and tribulations and the lessons they taught him that ultimately helped shape the person he became. … read more

Roundup: Journal of The Monolithic Dome Institute

UPDATED 9 Nov 2020

Roundup: Journal of the Monolithic Dome Institute was a full-color quarterly magazine published from 1997 to 2001. Many stories from the magazine are available through this website. … read more

Barry South

UPDATED 9 Nov 2020

Phillip Barry South is an entrepreneur and inventor. He co-invented the Monolithic Dome with his brothers David and Randy. He co-founded Monolithic. In 1988, he formed his own dome construction company — Dome Technology. … read more

Domes For The World

UPDATED 9 Nov 2020

Domes For The World (DFTW) is a non-profit organization committed to “improving the lives of people worldwide by promoting and providing safe and sustainable shelter. Through the construction of EcoShells and Monolithic Domes, communities will save energy, water and materials; preserve local surroundings; assure the health of their occupants; and require little maintenance.” … read more

Federal Emergency Management Agency

UPDATED 31 Oct 2020

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). … read more

Randy South

UPDATED 9 Nov 2020

Randy John South is the co-inventor of the Monolithic Dome and founder of South Industries. … read more

Polyurethane Foam

UPDATED 28 Oct 2020

Polyurethane foam is a two component super-insulation. … read more

Freda Parker

UPDATED 22 Sep 2020

Freda Parker is a writer and long-time contributor to the Monolithic Dome Institute. … read more

Jonathan Zimmerman

UPDATED 8 Sep 2020

The late architect, Jonathan Zimmerman, was known for his love of round architecture. Some of his designs are well known, including the structure known as “Dome of a Home” in Pensacola, Florida. … read more

Cut and Cover Tunnels

UPDATED 25 Aug 2020

A cut-and-cover underground tunnel is built by excavating a trench, building the tunnel structure, and backfilling soil around and over the tunnel. Using a tube-like Airform and spray-in-place concrete, a tunnel can be formed with less labor and overall cost. … read more

Arcadia Dome Home

UPDATED 22 Aug 2020

Arcadia Dome Home is the house of MDI Publisher, Dave South. … read more

First Monolithic Dome Home

UPDATED 13 Aug 2020

The first Monolithic Dome Home was built in Menan, Idaho, in 1978. … read more

Monolithic Dome Research Park

UPDATED 10 Aug 2020

The Monolithic Dome Research Park is the multi-dome campus near Italy, Texas, and headquarters for Monolithic and the Monolithic Dome Institute. … read more

Dave South

UPDATED 10 Aug 2020

Dave South is the publisher of the Monolithic Dome Institute. … read more

Residential Feasibility Study

A beautiful arched entrance to a Monolithic Dome Home

UPDATED 1 Sep 2020

Monolithic offers Residential Feasibility Studies–a practical, helpful tool for those preparing to build their dream home. The study includes preliminary floor plans and a professional, detailed, evaluation of your project. It includes a comparison of the Monolithic Dome process to other building systems. It defines the design and intent of your project. It establishes a detailed, estimated budget, based on the best available information. … read more

Dome Living Book

UPDATED 1 Sep 2020

Dome Living is a comprehensive planning guide. It includes invaluable know-how for anyone planning a Monolithic Dome home — no matter what style, size, or location.

Ordering your very own copy of Dome Living is easy and fast! In just minutes, you can download this practical, informative ebook to your iPad, iPhone, Android Smartphone, Kindle Fire, any computer, or any device capable of displaying a PDF. … read more

RKETEK

UPDATED 29 Jul 2020

RKETEK (pronounced architect) is an architecture firm in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. … read more

Maas Brothers Construction

UPDATED 15 Jul 2020

Maas Brothers Construction is a general contractor firm in Watertown, Wisconsin. … read more

TSP

UPDATED 29 Jul 2020

TSP, Inc. is a commercial architecture firm with offices in Rochester, Minnesota. They are a full-service firm offering architecture, planning, and engineering. … read more

ICC-500

UPDATED 9 Jun 2020

The International Code Council (ICC) standard for the Design and Construction of Storm Shelters. The ICC-500 is similar to the FEMA specification. … read more

South's, Inc.

UPDATED 28 Oct 2020

South’s, Inc., is the polyurethane foam insulation business established by David, Barry, and Randy South in 1971. Its headquarters were in Shelley, Idaho. The business became the large applicator of polyurethane foam west of the Mississippi. … read more

Gary Clark

UPDATED 9 Jun 2020

Gary L. Clark is Sales Manager at Monolithic … read more

Hurricane Michael

UPDATED 24 Jan 2020

Hurricane Michael was a Category 5 hurricane which struck the Florida Panhandle in 2018. … read more

Javier Figueroa

UPDATED 9 Jun 2020

Javier Figueroa is a job superintendent for Monolithic, expert dome builder, and “wrinkle whisperer” on complex Airform membranes. … read more

Mike South

UPDATED 9 Jun 2020

Michael South is the General Manager of Monolithic and a contributor to the Monolithic Dome Institute. … read more

Ammonium nitrate storage

UPDATED 10 Jan 2020

Ammonium nitrate is a high-nitrogen fertilizer. … read more

Monolithic Dome Roundup

UPDATED 8 Jan 2020

The Monolithic Dome Roundup is our email newsletter. It is a lightweight email delivered only once or twice a month. It mainly shows what’s new on our website. … read more

Prolate Ellipsoid

UPDATED 19 Dec 2019

A prolate ellipsoid or prolate spheroid is a special general ellipsoid where it is elliptically shaped in the major or long axis and circularly shaped in the minor or short axis. Simply put, it looks like a watermelon or a rugby ball. … read more

ZZ Consulting

UPDATED 18 Dec 2019

Monolithic Dome Movie Theater

UPDATED 18 Dec 2019

Historic Domes

UPDATED 28 Jul 2020

Domes of all sizes and purposes have been built for thousands of years. Widely regarded as the earliest known examples of dome-shaped structures, the huts built from mammoth bones found in Ukraine in the 1960s are believed to be about 15,000 years old. More recent examples of historic domes include the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Pantheon in Rome, Italy. … read more

Concrete Domes

UPDATED 28 Jul 2020

Frederick Crandall

UPDATED 21 Aug 2020

Architect Frederick L. Crandall (Rick) specializes in Monolithic dome projects and has completed over 200 dome projects since 1995. He is a voting member of the A.C.I. -A.S.C.E. 334 committee on concrete shell design and construction and has advised other professional firms in radial design principles, cost projections, and feasibility studies in several fields. … read more

Oblate Ellipsoid

UPDATED 26 Nov 2019

An oblate ellipsoid is a common shape for Monolithic Domes. The foundation is circular, but the profile is elliptically shaped. It creates higher “walls” around the outside of the dome, giving more headroom. … read more

Orion

UPDATED 26 Nov 2019

The First Monolithic Dome

UPDATED 22 Nov 2019

The first Monolithic Dome was a potato storage constructed in 1976 in Shelley, Idaho. The dome was 105-feet diameter by 35-feet tall. … read more

Near-Absolute Protection

UPDATED 6 Nov 2019

The phrase, “near-absolute protection” is defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to mean “based on our current knowledge of tornadoes and hurricanes, the occupants of a safe room built in accordance with [FEMA361] guidance will have a very high probability of being protected from injury or death.“ … read more