March/April 2016
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Project Profile: Maison de la Pomme
Overcoming Contractor Challenges, Part 1 By Pieter Vanderwerf
Project Profile: Calzada Chapel and Pool House
Project Profile: Shade Residence
ICF Builder Award Winners 2016
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Project Profile: Maison de la Pomme
Modeled after the classic French estates of centuries past, this beautiful home gets top marks in design, craftsmanship, and durability.
Overcoming Contractor Challenges, Part 1 By Pieter Vanderwerf
The author surveyed 15 experienced ICF contractors on the industry’s biggest challenges, and how to overcome them. Part two will appear in the May issue.
Project Profile: Calzada Chapel and Pool House
This one-of-a-kind home addition includes multiple innovative ICF construction techniques including deliberately canted two-story walls and a barrel-vault roof formed with EPS decking.
Project Profile: Shade Residence
Built on a steeply sloped lot overlooking San Francisco Bay, this four-level Spanish-style home is not only beautiful, but durable enough to last through the millenium.
ICF Builder Award Winners 2016
Highlighting the best-of-the-best ICF projects, judges selected a winner and two runners up in each category.
- Small Residential: Shade Residence
- Large Residential: House of Bryan
- Unlimited Residential: Clayton Residence
- Light Commercial: Our Lady of Sorrows Church
- Heavy Commercial: Health City Caymans Hospital
- MultiFamily: Holiday Inn and Conference Center
- Specialty Applications: Calzada Pool and Chapel
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