There appears to be a complete misunderstanding of how difficult it would be to copy the MAS™ system without having access to the MAS™ engineering analytical models.
MAS™ has developed a sophisticated engineering model based around its own mathematical algorithms using finite element analysis. MAS™ has been designed using “thin shell structural” analysis and there are just a handful of engineers in the world that understand and can operate with the advanced constraints involved with thin shell structures.
Even that handful of engineers could NOT reverse engineer the MAS™ system without incredible time and effort. And if they did they would violate the MAS™ pending patents thus making the reward for spending such time and effort problematic. Each structure ordered from MAS™ will have a unique set of engineering plans based upon 8 distinct environmental and code requirements. From this MAS™ computes 77 load combinations using its confidential and highly protected (secured) algorithms. MAS™ does not keep these exposed to the outside world via internet, etc. They are locked down and NO one person in MAS knows or has seen all these equations.
Without the solution to these 77 loading combinations you can NOT successfully build the MAS system.
You can NOT over design the MAS™ structures like you can in conventional construction. Thin shell solutions are sensitive. If you don’t put the rebar where MAS™ engineers tell you or layer the shotcrete like MAS™ engineers say, the results will be either a catastrophic failure, or you will get severe cracking immediately.
When you visit MAS™ and see the Discover Model built at Southern Utah University, you can see for yourself how critical this engineering really is. MAS™ will show you cracked panels that resulted when procedures are not followed, and flawless panels that are made by following the MAS™ engineering and procedures.
The rebar solution provided by MAS™ engineering is NOT evenly spaced or systematically directed. The thickness of the concrete varies, as does the placement of the re-bar chairs. It is a puzzle for which the solution can ONLY be provided by MAS™ and this solution must be provided on a structure by structure basis.
Someone could try to copy the MAS system only to find out a year down the road they built 100,000 units that are cracked and must be destroyed. It defies logic that someone would take this chance to avoid paying a ADELS Fee that includes architecture, design, engineering, technical & logistical support and a 20 year warranty.
This ADELS Fee is far less than the cost for an individual to do their own architecture, design, engineering and includes full technical and logistical support as well as a 20 year warranty!
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