The California Insurance Crisis
By Vanessa Salvia Allen Winters is a licensed contractor and owner of Allen Winters Concrete in...
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Category: ICF Costs
From the ICFA: The Other ICF Advantages
Commercial and institutional markets have discovered the sustainable and innovative advantages of...
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ICF Construction Mitigates Building & Operating Costs
Example of non-combustible full building envelope with ICF walls and iSpan floors and roof. A...
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An ICF House Proves Its Strength Over Decades
By Vanessa Salvia Terri Jean Smith, a resident of Fort Morgan, Alabama, on the top of a tiny...
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Intro to ICFs and Alternative ICFs
People need to be aware of all alternative building products. Because we are all better than...
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Starting and Growing a Successful ICF Business (Part II)
This article is adapted from a presentation made at the 2017 ICF Summit titled “Building Your...
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Benefits of Living in an ICF Home
When the heat or A/C goes out, ICF homes will maintain steady room temperature far longer than any...
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ICF’s And The Life-Cycle Assessment
With the current level of enthusiasm about sustainability and green construction, it’s...
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When Tech Assistance is Needed Most: Tips for DIYs
Most of the discussion about ICFs focuses on energy-efficiency and disaster resistance, and...
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ICFs From an Architects Perspective
Why should architects and engineers specify ICFs? The common response from the ICF industry is...
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ICF Vs. Traditional Framing
What Are The Real Costs Of Using ICFs? All too often, we hear that ICF is more expensive than...
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Design and Construction of Low-cost Disaster-resistant Replacement Houses
News stories telling about regional devastation resulting from natural disasters–floods,...
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Foam Differences: EPS, XPS, and EPU
Village Suites, the largest LEED-Platinum project in Canada is being built with Neopor ICFs. At...
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Vertical ICFs
This style of ICF eliminates form compression and float, reduces bracing requirements, and may...
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ICF Design 101: Structural Engineering
Often buildings are over-engineered and contain excessive steel and concrete wall cores than what wo...
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Greensburg
How ICFs are Helping Rebuild America’s Most Famous Green Town Two years ago, Greensburg, Kansas,...
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ICFs: The Only Green Concrete
“Green building has been at the forefront of the media over the past several years. The reality is...
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Form Differences
The ICF comparison chart on the following pages has been updated and expanded from last year’s...
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Total Shell Total Protection
Are you putting a Chevy roof on a Cadillac house? Around the year 2000, people in the ICF industry...
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Panelizing ICFs
Casitas Vera Cruz, in Bakersfield, Calif., was built using pre-panelized wall section. Built...
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Anatomy of an ICF Plan Conversion
With over 1,700 home plans on our company’s website, but only 113 adapted for ICF construction,...
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Home, Solid Home
SEBC “Show Home of the Future” Uses ICF The 2007 New Southern Home is designed to showcase...
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Floor and Decking Options
EPS decking systems, like the Lite-Deck used on this New England resort project, are a great match...
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ICFs and Schools
Alvaton Elementary School, near Bowling Green, Ky., was built entirely with insulated concrete...
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