Machine That Makes Buildings.

• Author: Foster, Sharon
• Position: Product of MIC Industries - Brief Article

MIC Industries, in Reston, Va., is marketing its Ultimate Building Machine (UBM) as a tool to ease the temporary set up of quarters or facilities in remote areas of the world. The UBM is a compact, mobile factory that is taken to the actual construction site to manufacture and assemble steel buildings. The system uses patented software, called Prosoft, to produce structures of various designs with ground-to-ground, self-supporting panels that require no support beams, trusses, columns, nuts, bolts, fastener screws or sealants. According to...