Our Proud History: Euro Building Technology
Henk Mensen, President and Founder of EBT has been in the building trade for over 30 years. His first company, AAB Building systems was focussed on developing innovative building technologies and selling them to buyers in different parts of the world.
EBT and Euro Building System was later designed and created by Henk following a near fatal fall he had which landed him in the hospital for many months. During his recovery he studied the latest innovative building materials and building systems focussing his research on light-weight building materials and the most modern construction methods using concrete filling. The result was EBT.
His first new-innovative-technology building project took into account all the problems inherent in construction using foam padding. He started AAB Building Systems in 1992, the predecessor of EBT. He chose to take the forms and polypropylene fasteners manufactured by existing plastics companies, assembled them in his own way and thereby have more time to market this approach far and wide. Customers were delighted by the built-in energy efficiency and simple customization which defined Henk’s product approach.
Core Values
- Innovation
- Expanding Network
- Environmentally responsible
- Health and Safety
- Easy and flexible
- Speedy Building
- Low cost/economical
- Durability
Early Success and International Growth
Henk’s original business plan focused solely on marketing his products in Canada. Word spread however and his innovative system quickly caught the attention of visitors from the United States and Japan who attended different business exhibitions where Henk exhibited. This lead to him launching a chain of offices in the United States and a contract for $100 million USD with a consortium of leading Japanese construction companies in 1994.
This early unplanned success of EBT was repeated in other Asian and Latin America countries. The versatility designed into the EBT system helped overcome a number of adverse conditions which plagued local housing construction in various countries including for example, the lack of wood or similar materials for construction, the impact of aging workers and the extreme temperatures, susceptibility to earthquakes and typhoons and hurricanes. And of course, there was no consistency between countries on building and construction codes. EBT adapted their products to all these situations.
