Build your own house with Gablok insulated blocks

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Quite possibly the closest thing that adults will ever have to Legos, Gablok’s insulated blocks redefine the way that houses can be built. As the cost of building new homes continues to rise, the demand for less expensive and more environmentally friendly homes has increased. Gablok, a start-up based out of Belgium, found a solution that resolves both of those problems.

As Gablok revolutionizes housebuilding, we take a closer look at their interlocking wooden blocks. Especially, how you can use them, and how to get your own! Gablok’s insulated wooden blocks were made to create a more straightforward construction process for building homes. It’s so easy that you can do it yourself without any prior construction knowledge. Keep reading to learn more about these curious and exciting blocks.

What are Gabloks?

Gablok insulated blocks are simple to use, quick to assemble, upgradeable, light, and energy-efficient. Most importantly, they offer a simple and efficient way to build a house by yourself. Created in 2019, Gablok set out to create an insulated wooden frame comprised of various blocks that serve many functions! As a fan of interlocking construction games, Gabriel Lakatos, the company’s founder, gained over 25 years of traditional construction experience before setting off to create something truly original and innovative.

Blocks and pieces included in the construction kit have everything that you will need. The starters are panels that are used to create the first layer on which the insulated blocks connect. Then there are insulated starter blocks that are specifically designed to cap the starter. The standard insulated blocks are protected with graphite and used to construct the majority of the house. In addition to the blocks, there are beams, which are built with three panels and filled with graphite insulation, as well.

The components used to build the floor are an insulated belt block which is designed to connect with the embossed rail, the lintel which is used to create door and window openings, the embossed top rail to accommodate the flooring, and then the floor element which is designed to fit into the embossed rail.

Step by step guide

Gablok offers design plans that highlight how to use its construction method. Once they are completed, you receive a diagram that shows all of the necessary steps to construct your house. By following your plan step by step, Gablok claims that you can have your home completed within a week – with little to no waste.

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A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend to become registered, startups refer to new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo founder. At the beginning, startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to be successful and influential. Some startups become unicorns; that is privately held startup companies valued at over US$1 billion.

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Startups typically begin by a founder (solo-founder) or co-founders who have a way to solve a problem. The founder of a startup will begin market validation by problem interview, solution interview, and building a minimum viable product (MVP), i.e. a prototype, to develop and validate their business models. The startup process can take a long period of time (by some estimates, three years or longer), and hence sustaining effort is required. Over the long term, sustaining effort is especially challenging because of the high failure rates and uncertain outcomes. Having a business plan in place outlines what to do and how to plan and achieve an idea in the future. Typically, these plans outline the first 3 to 5 years of your business strategy.

Design principles

Models behind startups presenting as ventures are usually associated with design science. Design science uses design principles considered to be a coherent set of normative ideas and propositions to design and construct the company's backbone. For example, one of the initial design principles is "affordable loss".

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Three engineers and three accountants

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Three engineers and three accountants are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each buy tickets and watch as the three engineers buy only a single ticket.

"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks an accountant. "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer. They all board the train. The accountants take their respective seats but all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them.

Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.

The accountants saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all). When they get to the station they buy a single ticket for the return trip.

To their astonishment, the engineers don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asked one perplexed accountant.

"Watch and you'll see," answered an engineer. When they board the train the three accountants cram into a restroom and the three engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs.

Shortly afterward, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the accountants are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please."