The invention provides a method of manufacturing and analyzing a building made
from Expanded PolyStyrene (EPS) which is coated on the inside and outside with
Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC). The building is designed in a CAD program.
Then, the building is divided up into small volumes in the CAD program or in a
Finite Element Analysis program. Plates are added to the inner and outer surfaces
of the volumes. Appropriate characteristics of the EPS and GFRC are assigned to
the volumes and plates. A FEA analysis can then be run.