How Building a Disaster-resistant Home Will Save You Money
By Trevor Brown I feel that the most overlooked value of an ICF home is RESILIENCE. In an era of...
Read More
Category: Why ICFs?
Building for Resilience: Adapting Construction to Withstand Natural Disasters
By Elise VuePhoto Credit: iStock The unprecedented frequency and intensity of natural disasters...
Read More
Building Resilience: How ICF Structures Withstand Natural Disasters
By Alysha Campbell, Marketing Manager for Airfoam Industries/Quad-Lock ICF As natural disasters...
Read More
Be Prepared
By Tom Patton At a time when many areas of the country are experiencing extreme weather events...
Read More
Designing For Natural Disasters and Environmental Conditions
By Dave Gowers ICF construction is extremely suitable to resist natural disasters and extreme...
Read More
Safety, Come What May
Photos courtesy of Nexgen ICF ICF Builder magazine has an active Facebook group called ICF Builder...
Read More
The California Insurance Crisis
By Vanessa Salvia Allen Winters is a licensed contractor and owner of Allen Winters Concrete in...
Read More
Building a Green Future: Harnessing the Power of Resilient & Energy-Efficient Design
By Frank Gordon, Assoc. AIA, VP of Strategic Development, BuildBlock Building Systems In the face...
Read More
From the ICFA: The Other ICF Advantages
Commercial and institutional markets have discovered the sustainable and innovative advantages of...
Read More
From the ICFMA: Still Standing After Disasters
Natural disasters, which are becoming more frequent every year due to the drastic changes in...
Read More
Engineers Corner: ICF Construction Is A Great Way To Achieve Green Building
The theme for this edition of ICF Builder is green building. This is a term we hear a lot of these...
Read More
Building Safer Schools With ICF
West High School in West, Texas. By Vanessa Salvia Talk to any school-age child about Legos and...
Read More
Subdivision Built to Withstand Wildfires
Approximately three years ago, I became involved with the construction of a new residential...
Read More
Adjusting to Increasing Natural Disasters
The increase in natural and climate-related disasters has caused a record number of expenditures...
Read More
A Case Study on How Insulated Concrete Forms Can Prevent Structure Loss During Wildfires
Logix ICF Home on Cliffhanger Lane that Survived the Camp Fire (Lennox, 2019) Editor’s Note:...
Read More
ICF Construction Mitigates Building & Operating Costs
Example of non-combustible full building envelope with ICF walls and iSpan floors and roof. A...
Read More
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...
Read More
Intro to ICFs and Alternative ICFs
People need to be aware of all alternative building products. Because we are all better than...
Read More
ICF Homes and Car Collisions
ICF homes have a remarkable ability to shield occupants from all sorts of disasters, including...
Read More
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...
Read More
In the News: Surviving Dorian
Hurricane Dorian is said to be one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit the Bahamas. The...
Read More
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...
Read More
ICFs and the Passive House Movement
The number of passive buildings in North America has increased more than six times over in the...
Read MoreLab Notes: Thermal Performance of ICF Walls
The thermal performance of insulated concrete form (ICF) walls has been a long-debated topic amongst building industry leaders. ICF companies have touted their performance while cavity wall proponents have argued that their...
Read More