The Paterson Showhouse Project is part of the BASF Corporation initiative "Better Home, Better Planet": it brings together the best building practices, materials and technologies available today and shows how BASF products can be used to create a healthy, more efficient, more ecoefficient and more affordable home.

An objective reached mainly through the use of insulating concrete foams consisting of two panels of expanded polystyrene (EPS) rigid insulation foam connected by steel ties, EPS insulation panels and structural insulation panels (SIP), made of a core of moulded EPS insulation with engineered oriented strand board (OSB) laminated to the top and bottom faces.
All these solutions have been developed with Styropor® by BASF.

In addition to being energy efficient and recyclable, the foam building systems reduce construction time, are durable and create quieter, less draughty homes.