Meanwhile, in addition to this construction/housing prototyping project, Gigliotti and SPEG started other prototyping projects:

  • Furniture, with Eames designer and furniture maker

  • Automotive interiors at Pratt Institute with Luigi Contini

  • Automotive parts and miscellaneous articles with General Motors Institute in Detroit.

  • Miscellaneous building products projects, such as roofing, a joint venture on house siding, downspouts and gutters, corrugated vinyl panels, and a joint venture on sandwich panels were conducted.

 

All of these projects also ended up with either prototyping or actual commercial products that received technical and popular favorable receptions. 

 

Meanwhile, on the legal and regulatory side, Gigliotti with assistance from Monsanto executives, encouraged the formation, inside of The Manufacturing Chemists Association and The Society of the Plastics Industry, of building and regulatory code committees to work on including sound, safe, engineered regulations allowing the use of plastic products in those applications.  Gigliotti became the first chairperson of each of these committees and then arranged so that other persons immediately took over implementing the activity.


Monsanto's C. Howard Adams and Rohm & Haas's Fritz Rarig began a vigorous, thoughtful campaign of code modifications inside of Underwriters Laboratories, National Building Official Conference, National Fire Protection Association, and other regulatory bodies.  With Gigliotti's encouragement, chemical industry executives urged the stock insurance companies to begin considering life-saving codes in addition to property-saving codes, and Underwriters Labs formed a Plastics Advisory Committee to which Gigliotti was appointed. 


Also, the National Academy of Science started a Building Research Institute in which there was a Plastics Study Group; Gigliotti became its Chairman and the Building Research Institute sponsored a number of conferences on the use of plastics materials in building construction.