Beehive Builders Information

Beehive Builders is a partnership. Torffield's partner is Kathleen Atkins, who provides financing and marketing. Torffield has engaged a local professional builder who has 20 years of building upscale homes. Torffield is an artist whose work consistently won a top prize in the Black Bear Film Festival contest. Now she used her artistic talent to design userfriendly homes. She estimates that the home she is now building off Silver Lake Road in Dingmans Ferry will use half the annual cost for electric or oil to heat each year and use less oil. She will be completing her first home this summer and it will be ready to go on the market then. Torffield and her husband gave the Pike County Dispatch a tour of the property on Saturday, shortly after a 10story crane sent by Rastra ® poured concrete. Even before completion, the home looks rock solid, but is spacious, roomy, and filled with light. The technology Torffield and her builder is using is well tested over a 30years period, during which over five million units using Rastra have been built. The blocks are secured with Rebar ® steel rods to provide unseal stability. Because of its unusual strength and stability, Rastra ® has been used in theatres, multistory apartment complexes, institutions, and projects where unusually complex architectural and artistic designs are used in interiors. According to a Rastra ® marketing brochure, the material has been used in projects in parts of the world where extreme weather and terrain prevail, such as the Saudi Arabian desert, humid Southeast Asia, and the Austrian Alps. The first home using Rastra ® was built in the U.S.A. in Arizona in 1991. Most of the homes using Rastra ® in the U.S.A. are in the West and Southwest. Torffield wants to change that. She sees that the many benefits of homes using Rastra ® are ideally suited the Poconos and the east coast and wants to be a pioneer. Although the finished homes she is designing will not be cheap, owners can recover the investment in many ways, not just energy savings annual. ...