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BASF Construction Video Library

 

Featuring project and product application videos, as well as micro webinar presentations

 

  • BASF Disaster Durable SolutionsTM- Weathering the Storm

    Weather can be wildly unpredictable-and increasingly unrelenting. But we can build and retrofit stronger homes, buildings and structures to prepare for the worst.

  • Enertite® the Preferred Polyurethane Spray Foam

    More value from your home, a home built with products that contribute to a healthier environment create a better place to live.

  • HP+TM Wall System

    BASF´s HP+TM Wall System is a new way to build homes and buildings, one that increases the durability and longevity of a house and makes economic sense for both builders and owners. It provides high-performance and easy-to-build assemblies that combine proven BASF products into a layered system. Watch this customer story.

  • HP+TM Wall System - XR Series

    The HP+TM Wall System - XR Series is designed to deliver a new way to build affordable, high performance homes. Beyond the durability that the system provides, it also controls heat, air and moisture allowing homeowners to enjoy the benefits of improved indoor air quality and lower energy use.

  • Hurricane Sandy - Resilient Homes with Disaster Durable Solutions and FLASH

    In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Disaster Durable Solutions® by BASF and the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) came together to develop and build the first #HurricaneStrong Home in Breezy Point, NY.

  • Sound absorption for open offices: Designing with Basotect®

    When solving modern-day acoustical challenges, the only limit to working with Basotect is your imagination. In this video, Inside the Blueprint highlights Basotect's versatility.

  • Neopor® - The Power of the Original Grey
    Neopor® - The Power of the Original Grey

    The Brunckviertel, a settlement for workers which was created in the 1930s, was revitalized in its entirety from 1997 to 2006. The new and modernized buildings were provided with innovative system solutions in the areas of thermal insulation. For the first time, an external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) comprising insulating material panels made of Neopor®, was used.

  • Basotect: The Artful Design of Sound Control

    Because Basotect can be shaped into any form an architect, interior designer or sound engineer envisions, Basotect can serve as a functional and artful component while contributing to the sound quality of any space.

  • HP+ Flash Liquid Flashing Membrane

    Best practice demonstration for applying BASF HP+ Flash liquid flashing membrane to rough opening.

  • Disaster Durable Solutions

    Revolutionize the way homes and buildings stand up to Mother Nature.

  • Home built with the HP+TM Wall System scores a zero on the HERS® Index

    Eric Bjerre, Building Science Advisor, Maryland and Virgina, TopBuild Homes Services, Inc. and the Environments For Living® program, talks about testing out a home built with the HP+TM Wall System.

  • Narrowing the gap between energy efficient housing and affordability

    Jay Epstein, owner of Health-E Homes Community Enterprises in Virginia, discusses how BASF´s HP+TM Wall System and Neopor® continuous insulation helped him to achieve a "zero" energy build.

  • Ucrete Destruction Challenge - The World's toughest Floor

    Floors in food and pharmaceutical industries must withstand harshest conditions and need to meet highest hygienic requirements at the same time. Our dense and impervious Ucrete flooring systems not only fulfil highest hygienic standards they are designed for the toughest industrial environments, withstanding heavy impact, high and low temperature spillage as well as chemical attack. We challenged Ucrete flooring in the most brutal fashion when bashing, boiling, pickling and freezing it - just to show you how tough Ucrete is. No special effects, no tricks, just brute force.

  • How our customers benefit from sustainable portfolio steering

    Find out how we work with our customers in creating and driving more sustainable solutions, which makes good business sense for both.

  • HP+ Advanced Wall Systems for 2016 and Beyond

  • How does efficient flat roof insulation work? Concepts from a construction site with Neopor®

    Many millions of square meters of flat roof are not yet green - this means wasting an enormous potential of living space.

  • MetaMax® High quality pozzolanic cement additive

    MetaMax® high-reactivity metakaolin product is an ultrafine pozzolan that enhances the strength, durability, appearance, and workability of portland cement concrete and cement-based products. MetaMax® can increase both the early strength and the fully cured strength of concrete due to its pozzolanic reactivity.

  • WALLTITE HP+TM high-performance insulating air barrier material

  • Go BEYOND with the HP+TM Wall Systems

    Purpose built assemblies bringing proven BASF products into single, integrated systems for exceptional control of heat, air and moisture.

  • Meeting the Future with Innovative HP+ Building Enclosure Systems

    Rick Davenport, Director of Sustainable Construction at BASF, presents at ICAA and explains how BEYOND.High Performance® brings you an entirely new, integrated approach to residential construction that combines innovative systems-centric solutions and superior support services.

  • A sustainable building reduces the draw on our natural resources

    Turner Construction, who built this 325.000 square foot Headquarters Building, shares its sustainable vision for the future and used many BASF products in the construction. Including the BASF's roofing system, an easy to use spray application and Green Sense® Concrete program.

  • Going new ways with Elastopave®

    As urbanization will increase in the coming decades researchers predict that two thirds of the world´s population will live in metropolitan centres. And they will need an authentic, sustainable infrastructure. Elastopave offers new design scope, being both advanced and near-natural at the same time. Whatever the application, walkways, parking areas, patios, or pedestrian zones.

  • Basotect Melamine Foam

    A lightweight, sound-absorbing, fiber-free melamine foam, Basotect® G+ is used in room acoustic applications. It meets the strict emission requirements of the California Section 01350, which fulfills indoor air emissions for California Collaborative for High Performing Schools (CHPS) and several LEED® criteria.

  • Welcome Home to BEYOND.High Performance®

    Learn about the importance of Occupant Behavior in a tight home

  • BASF Acronal® 4333 X Quick-TriggerTM technology offers a variety of benefits

    BASF Acronal® 4333 X Quick-TriggerTM is a roof coating additive that helps reflective roof coating contractors achieve increased early rain resistance, decreased labor time, and season extension.

  • Part 3: Durability

    Learn first-hand how this structural assembly meets or exceeds today´s new codes

  • Part 2: The HP+TM Wall System

    See how building science was used to achieve enhanced efficiencies in home construction

  • Part 1: BEYOND.High Performance®

    Learn how BASF engages with builders to develop a forward plan on how to improve building processes

  • Elastospray® Closed-Cell SPF roofing

    A sustainable roof that offers both the lowest lifecycle cost and a low environmental impact.

  • BASF Elastospray roofing system

  • WALLTITE® Commercial Insulating Air Barrier System

  • A sustainable roof is a roof that you can renew

  • Building Science. Building the Future.

    Professional Builder's Tony Mancini chats with BASF at Show Village IBS 2015 on how the company works closely with builders to develop building envelope systems that are sustainable, affordable and efficient. Watch to learn more.

  • Spray polyurethane roofing systems: features and benefits

    Moses Clark, National Accounts Roofing Manager, BASF, discusses the features and benefits of SPF roofing systems.

  • Disaster Durable SolutionsTM micro-webinar

    Watch this informative webinar on improved building durability, hosted by Joel W. May, IBHS FORTIFIED Home Evaluator, LEED® Green Associate

  • HP+ Wall Gallery

  • Porous Asphalt Pavement Open Grade Demo

  • Building Blocks of Chemistry

  • Behind the Build. BASF's BEYOND.High Performance home.

    Get behind the scenes in this video featuring the BEYOND.High PerformanceSM home at Show Village 2013.

  • SPF technologies at a glance

    Learn about spray-applied polyurethane foam (SPF) technologies for roofing, interior insulation, air barrier and modular construction applications.

  • Improving Pavement Preservation

    Learn about latex polymers for improved pavement preservation techniques. Porous pavement technologies are also discussed.

  • BASF Environmental Education Classroom and Wildlife Habitat

    The BASF Wildlife Habitat & Environmental Education Classroom in the City of Rensselaer, New York is an international showcase for sustainable development including best practices in site remediation, brownfield redevelopment and high-performance commercial construction.

  • Creating Chemistry for a Sustainable World