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The American Ingenuity Dome Building Kit consists of all the triangular and riser component panels for the dome shell and panels for one entryway.  Your floor plan selection determines how many additional entryways, door dormers, window dormers that will be shipped with your Kit.

To learn about American Ingenuity's new 22' Eco Cottage one bedroom/one bath stock plans and special package pricing, please click on Eco Cottage for 3 1/2 EPS kit with 4' riser.  Click on Eco Custom Cottage for 7" EPS kit with 5' riser.  Click on Eco Pod Cottage for 22' 7' EPS Kit with 5' riser and 12' Pod.   *Excludes Eco Cottage Kits.

To learn about Ai's Building Plans Sale, click on  Plans Discount.

An entryway is a structural item (an awning/eyebrow) that extends out from the dome.  Under this entryway your locally purchased doors and windows are installed.  Each of Ai's stock floor plans vary in the number and location of entryways and dormers (places for single windows or single doors to be installed).   Building Options is the general term that we apply to entryways, dormers, skylights, cupola and link.  Building Options can add $2,000 to $4,000 on to the price of the basic building kit.  Please scroll down this page to see the pricing of the individual Building Options. 

Ai's stock plans show the location of the entryways, dormers, skylights, etc.  If a stock plan does not fit your lifestyle, Ai can modify a stock plan or design a custom plan from your sketches.  Some of the stock floor plans can be viewed and printed out by going to this link Stock Floor Plans.  Call our office at 321-639-8777 to receive other stock plans via email.  Or you can purchase a Planning Kit which includes a 60 page Stock Floor Plan Booklet and a DVD by going to this link Shopping Cart. 

To view the file that lists the Stock Plans pricing and the appropriate Building Kit with Building Options pricing for each stock plan, click on Stock Plan and Stock Kit Prices.

To view a file that covers the square footage by floor in each size dome, please click on Specifications.

Entryways are available as standard, high profile and garage.  The 30 thru 48' dome standard & high profile entryways consist of 3 1/2" E.P.S. with steel mesh attached & concrete on the underside.  22' & 27' Garage entryways and the 60' dome entryways are 3 1/2" E.P.S. with steel mesh. Concrete is applied on site. Second floor window dormers are not available on 22' and 30' domes.  Second floor door dormers are not available in the 22', 27', 30', 34' or 60' domes. Skylights do not open and are installed inside the triangular concreted panels.

Two domes can be connected by a link. Link panels consist of 7" or 3 1/2" thick E.P.S. On site, links are custom cut & fitted to the assembled dome kits. On site you or your builder attaches the steel mesh and applies the concrete. Steel mesh is included for the link. Wallboard can be adhered to the link EPS panels at Ai's plant.  Call for Link pricing. To learn more click on:

• Building Options
  
• Panel Composition
• Kit Contents
• Items not included in the Kit

Building Kit Option's Pricing**

Screen Dome Kit

 

Conditions and costs may change requiring our prices to increase without prior notice.

Payment for Building Kits and Screen Dome Kits:

Building Kit and Screen Dome Kit orders require a 30% deposit and signed Order Form and signed Conditions of Sale for American Ingenuity to schedule manufacturing.   The balance, in the form of a cashier's check, is due 14 days prior to shipment. Florida residents, add sales tax plus your counties' surtax.  No Credit Card Charges. If the building kit is shipped out of Florida, you do not pay Florida sales tax.

The Building Kit Order Form will list the following:

• Building Kit pricing
• Building Kit Option pricing (entryways, window dormers, door dormers, skylights, cupola, etc.)  To learn more click on Building Options.
• Misc Parts (items not commonly found at hardware stores).  To learn more click on Items not included in the Kit.
• Deposit on Steel Hubs of $850 for four months rental with a rent of $20 a month thereafter.  Once you return the hubs/bolts/nuts/washers to us, Ai will refund your deposit less any rental costs or costs for missing parts.  To assemble the kits use a temporary wooden rib system to support the panels during assembly.  The steel hubs/bolts/nuts/washers are assembled to your wooden ribs into a geodesic skeleton.  To learn more click on Rib.
• To make assembly of the temporary wooden rib system easier, you can purchase the 2x4 ribs precut, holes drilled and ends painted from Ai.  Due to the fluctuation on 2x4 wood pricing, call us at 321-639-8777 for current pricing.
  
• Deposit on Panel Lifting Spikes of $100.  To learn more click on FAQ Assembly.
• If the Building Kit will be built in Florida, a Florida sales tax and that particular counties surtax will be listed.
• Deposit amounts placed and deposit amounts due. 
• Discounts you will receive.
• Expiration dates on discounts and pricing.
• Shipping cost.

All payments are to be made in USdollars.

Delivery and Availability:

Once Ai receives your 30% deposit based on your Building Kit with options pricing and the signed Building Kit Order Form and Conditions of Sale, Ai schedules your kit for manufacturing. Allow twelve to sixteen weeks for manufacturing time.

Shipping:

Shipping is scheduled after Ai receives the final payment. One step deck semi-truck can carry one 30', one 36', one 40', one 45', one 48' kit (with 7" EPS), possibly two 27' kits, or two 22' kits. A 60' kit requires two semi-trucks. American Ingenuity can coordinate the USA shipping.  International clients coordinate their own shipping using a freight forwarder. To learn about importing American Ingenuity's dome kit, please click on Importing.

The number of kits one truck can carry can change if the building kit contains four or five entryways, a link and thicker insulation. For example a 48' kit with 9" EPS cannot fit on one semi-truck.  Entryways and a link take up more space than triangular and riser panels.  Once you select your floor plan, Ai can be specific about how many truck(s) your order will take.

Each International client hires a freight forwarder to coordinate their container’s shipping and pays their shipping and custom fees directly to the freight forwarder.

Ai’s manufacturing costs in Florida are well below the national average, which offsets any long distance shipping expenses. Ai can actually manufacture a kit here in Florida and ship it to Washington state cheaper than we could manufacture it there. Having our manufacturing plant located in Florida is advantageous for shipping since more is shipped in than out of the state, leaving many trucks headed out empty.

Ai utilizes independent trucking agencies. American Ingenuity contracts to have these trucks carry your building kit outside Florida for approximately $2.50 per mile per truck from Ai's plant in Rockledge, Florida. Shipping within Florida is a minimum of $800. If your Florida building site is south of our factory, the truckers charge more because they have to drive south before they can drive north to leave Florida.  These trucking costs are less than Ai could do with our own trucks because if we used our own trucks, they would have to deliver the kit and return to our factory empty.  Shipping costs are paid to American Ingenuity 10-14 days prior to the scheduled shipment date with a bank check.

Per mile shipping costs can vary due to fuel costs and travel distances. Click on Shipping to learn more.

American Ingenuity's Philosophy:

One of the main reasons American Ingenuity is very reputable is that we really try to treat all our customers the same. Our business philosophy and product is unique to the housing industry.

Ai believes that each client should pay for only what they need.

• Each person who wants to research our building kit further can do so by purchasing the Planning Kit with DVD or purchase the DVD separatly.
• None of Ai's staff is on commission.
• Ai does not make a profit on the Building Plans.
• About 50% of Ai's clients do not need engineer sealed building plans in order to obtain a building permit. As a result the engineer seal is a separate cost.

As a result of the above philosophy, the American Ingenuity dome shell kit costs about one half less than the shell materials cost for a conventional house or wooden dome or sprayed concrete dome.

 Dome Building Kit:

Ai's Dome Kit consists of all the triangular and riser component panels for the dome shell and panels for one entryway. Each component panel has 7" thick rigid R-28 expanded bead polystyrene insulation (which is comparable to 11" of fiberglass batting); a steel reinforced concrete exterior surface and interior shell wall board. All triangular and riser panels now include Georgia Pacific 1/4" Dens-Deck wallboard on the interior surface of the insulation. The 22' Building Kit component panels consist of 3 1/2" thick E.P.S. To learn more about what is included in the Building Kit, click on Kit Contents.

Due to the thick insulation, the American Ingenuity Dome will save you 50% to 70% on your heating and cooling expenses versus a conventional house. To learn more about the advantages of the Ai Dome view the files listed under the menu item, Advantages, located at the top of our Home Page.  These Advantages are Energy Efficiency, Strength and Low Exterior Maintenance.

American Ingenuity’s dome building kits do not include doors and windows. There is such a variety and varying price points, Ai leaves the doors and windows up to each client to purchase locally. The floor plan you select will determine how many entryways or dormers your dome home will have. Within the entryways and dormers {eye brows}, you or your framing subcontractor installs a vertical wall to frame in what ever standard doors or windows you have purchased locally. 

Ai specializes in the manufacturing of the special dome kit as a result no interior items are included in the building kit except for the interior shell wallboard that is on each component panel. Ai believes you should not pay shipping on conventional items that you can purchase locally such as: your foundation, plumbing, electrical, framing, flooring, kitchen cabinets, kitchen appliances, bathroom fixtures, lighting fixtures, windows, doors, etc. To learn more about what is not included in the Building Kit click on Items Not Included.

If your Dome Building Kit is shipped outside of Florida, you do not pay Florida sales tax or the Florida surtax if applicable.  

Plans are 50% off the pricing listed below,

 if ordered before December 31, 2012.

To view Plans Sale Pricing, click on Plans Discount.

 

BUILDING PLAN SETS contain all blueprints typically provided with any type of housing and include floor plans, exterior elevations, dome shell section view, top view showing panel placement, floor joist framing plans, structural details, and locations of plumbing and electrical fixtures. The Plans do not include the plumbing, electrical or HVAC diagrams because we have found that those subs like to draw their own diagrams. If your Building Department requires these diagrams, let us know and we will quote you a price.

Modified, Stock or Custom Plans: Some of  Ai's stock plans are on this web site. To receive others via email, call us at 321-639-8777.  In the Planning Kit is a 60 page Stock Floor Plan Booklet that contains some of the stock plans printed out for the 22' thru 48' domes. All 60' dome plans are custom. Ai does not keep stock plans printed out as we are continually making improvements. So from the point Ai receives your Building Plan order to the point we mail your stock building plans (with concrete foundation) can be two to four weeks.  Allow at least five weeks for modified plans and eight weeks for custom plans. To order the Planning Kit click on the blue button located on our Home Page titled "Visit our Store".

If you do not see a plan that fits your lifestyle we can modify our stock plans or Ai can design custom plans for a reasonable fee. To learn more about this service, click on Stock, Modified, Custom.

How the plan design process works and plan delivery time:

If you do not see a stock plan that fits your needs, what Ai has found works best is for you to sketch out your ideas on a stock plan or on the blue floor planner pages located in the back of the stock floor plan booklet and email the sketches to us or fax them to us at 321-639-8778. After you fax, please call our office at 321-639-8777 and confirm Ai received your fax....correct number of pages, pages legible, etc. Ai does not make in-office appointments to discuss floor plans. Please include your name, address, telephone number and best time(s) to contact you. The plans supervisor will review your sketch, possibly call you with questions and give you a price quote. Once Ai receives payment in full for the Building Plans and the Plans Quote signed, we schedule your building plans for production.

Ai will fax or email you two rough drafts that you review and make changes on and email or fax them back to us. After you approve the final draft, we design your structural blue prints and complete your plans. Once Ai starts your modified or custom plans design it can take five to eight weeks to complete.......usually most of the time is taken up between when we send you the draft and when you return it to us.

Engineer seal:

About half the states in America and all new construction in Florida and California require engineer sealed building plans and Energy Reports to obtain a building permit. This seal can be purchased through American Ingenuity. In Florida a 40' dome seal is $400; two domes seal is $500. In California and western states, a seal is $2,000 to $3,000 depending on the size dome and the county you wish to build in.  The Florida Energy Audit which Ai can complete is $120.

American Ingenuity’s dome exceeds any state's building codes. But the building departments do not know this so they require a licensed engineer certified for your state to review our Building Plans and affix his seal and signature to the structural sheets. His seal and signature means that Ai’s Building Plans comply with your state's building codes. To learn more click on Engineer Seal.

Building Plans showing Metal Framing:

•  If the first floor of the dome is concrete, Ai can design with steel studs and steel joists for the second floor....call for pricing.

•  If the dome has a basement or raised first floor, Ai can design basement studs and first floor joist with steel....call for pricing.

•  The cost of metal framing is slightly higher than wood. You should only use metal framing if your subcontractor has worked with it before.

•   Metal Framing is not more fire proof. In a fire it will deform quicker than wood.

Building Plans Payment:

Building plans may be purchased with Master Card, Visa, Check, or Money Orders. Plans are shipped free of charge via priority mail to USA destinations.  All payments are to be made in USdollars.