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Project Statistics
Location: Iasi, Moldova, Romania
Type: Private Residence
Size: 2,224 sq. ft. (finished) plus 550 sq. ft. garage
ICF Use: 2,400 sq. ft. (100% exterior walls), plus EPS roof decking and interior walls
Cost: Undisclosed
Total Construction: June ‘03 to Aug. ’04
ICF Installation Time: 21 days (walls) 7 days (roof)
Construction Team
Owner: CPM Associates/Cloyd Warnes
Architect: Home Design Services/James Zirkel
General Contractor: TRIMEC, srl/Horst Hantelmann
ICF Installer: CPM Associates/Cloyd Warnes
ICF Distributor: Quad-Lock Building Systems
ICF System: Walls by Quad-Lock ICF/Roof by Plastbau
Fast Facts
- Goal was to introduce ICFs to post-communist Eastern Europe
- Claimed to be first ICF home in Romania. (Built in 2003)
- First-time crew of former truck mechanics
- Presentation made to mayor, city council, government architect, engineer, and planning commission. Suppliers and community VIPs also attended
- Built in half the time of traditional construction
- All-concrete, disaster-proof shell
- Misc. building supplies had to be purchased at muddy, open-air market
- Geothermal heat pump reduces heating and cooling costs
- Rainwater collection cistern
- Handicap-accessible with single-level living and 1-meter-wide doorways
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