Project Profiles
Small Residential
Eckland Residence
2019 Small Residential 1st Runner-Up This three-story, 2,700-sq.-ft. home in Southeast Alaska was designed and built to showcase the advantages of ICF construction. The owner, Doug Eckland, is an ICF distributor in the region, and built the home himself. It’s a...
Living Stone Lodge House
2019 Small Residential Winner Living Stone Lodge House is unique. Built on an Indian reservation in Twin Buttes, North Dakota, the polygonal house has sixteen wall segments, joined at 22.5 degree angles. Each block was custom cut onsite using a homemade jig, and...
Landry Residence
2019 Small Residential 2nd Runner-Up Parks ICF in Knoxville has been building with ICF for more than 20 years. One of their latest projects is this 2,315-sq.-ft. home, built completely from ICF. It used 2,784 sq. ft. of forming. Total build time on the house was...
The Toronto
2018 Small Residential Best In Class The Toronto sets a high bar for ICF construction. Built as a developer's first ICF project in difficult winter conditions, it demonstrates that innovative builders can increase profits and customer satisfaction while...
River House
2018 Small Residential 2nd Runner-Up River House is a beautiful single family home located on the banks of the Mississippi River about 100 miles downstream of St. Louis, Missouri. It was designed and built by Ivan and Sue Griffin, who despite having no...
Blumenfeld-Krone Residence
2018 Small Residential 1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Verdi, California Type: Private Residence Size: 2,150 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 8,024 sq. ft. Cost: $850,000 Total Construction: 60 weeks ICF Installation Time: 54 days Construction Team Owner + General...
Kauder Residence
2016 Small Residential 2nd Runner-Up The Delaware coast is a frequent target of strong storms and hurricanes, most recently when Superstorm Sandy roared ashore in 2012. When that storm came ashore, the Kauder family was planning their new home in Milton....
Howell Residence
Built on a hilltop in a prestigious neighborhood overlooking Phoenix, Ariz., the Howell Residence is a masterpiece. The Southwest-style home features clean lines, an open floor plan and a functional layout. According to Gary Fetters of Castle Rock...
Florida Hurricane Home
This home—built in Putnam County, Fla, about 50 miles north of Orlando—a showpiece of resilience, efficiency, and value. Its lines are typical of a "cracker home," a classic type of Florida architecture featuring metal roofs, wide wrap-around porches, a raised floor,...
Large Residential
Green Casa Maryland
2019 Large ResidentialFinalistThis 5,200-sq.-ft. home in Maryland is a model home dedicated to showcasing sustainable building practices. The home certainly achieved that in a variety of ways, including having nearly no waste thrown away on site during the...
Florida Beach House
2019 Large Residential 1st Runner-Up The ICF industry hangs its hat on a few defining benefits; energy efficiency, ease of construction, and disaster resistance. The Florida Beach House is a shining example of all of these attributes. In addition, the home has already...
Karnavas Residence
2019 Large Residential Winner A large residential project in Cedar Hill, Texas, took first in its class in the annual ICF Builder Awards. Completed last November, the home wowed the judges with the technical complexity of the build, dramatic energy efficiency and...
Fort Screven Home
2019 Large Residential 2nd Runner-Up This private residence affectionately dubbed “The Battery,” literally sits atop a genuine piece of American history.The name is derived from the foundation portion of the structure, which a century ago was known as “Battery...
Tuscan Place
2018 Large Residential 2nd runner-Up Tuscan Place is the latest addition to an exclusive neighborhood that already features eight ICF homes of various sizes. It’s also the largest and most complex. Located near Corpus Christi, Texas, the property has a...
Otten House
2018 Large Residential 1st Runner Up The Otten House, located just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, appears to be an average family home. In reality, the Otten House is a net zero home, engineered to seamlessly blend proven, old-school technologies with...
Emerald City
2018 Large Residential Winner One of the more unique green homes is Emerald City and its attached guest house, which is located outside the Colorado ski resort town of Steamboat Springs. Mark Mueller, the homeowner, not only did the design work himself, but also...
Otten House
2018 Large Residential 1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Caseyville, Illinois Type: Private Residence Size: 5,656 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 6,703 sq. ft. Cost: $883,000 Total Construction: 40 weeks ICF Installation Time: 9 days Construction Team...
Emerald City
2018 Large Residential Best In Class Project Statistics Location: Steamboat Springs, Colorado Type: Private Residence Size: 6,000 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 16,531 sq. ft. Cost: $1.2 million Total Construction: 220 weeks ICF Installation Time: 240 days...
Unlimited Residential
Orman Residence
2019 Unlimited Residential 1st Runner-Up Located at the top of a gentle hill in Southern California, the Orman Residence showcases how ICFs can work with virtually any style of architecture to achieve a home that is energy efficient, disaster-resistant, and...
Chateau Nectar
2019 Unlimited Residential Winner One of the most stunning homes built anywhere in the world in recent years is the Chateau Nectar in Vaughan, Ontario. Located on a secluded lot in the suburbs north of Toronto, the home is a spectacular combination of modern...
Woodland Estate
2019 Unlimited Residential 2nd Runner-Up This luxury ranch house in the mountains of Utah matches the architecture of many of the surrounding residences. Underneath the finishes, though, is unmatched durability and efficiency. Located on a picturesque site in the...
Casa Tres Playas
2018 Unlimited Residential 2nd Runner-Up Casa Tres Playas is a beautiful 9,000-sq.-ft. home built directly on the beach a few miles northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas. The residence experienced the full fury of Hurricane Harvey last fall. Yet the home...
McDowell Residence
2018 Unlimited Residential Best In Class The McDowell ranch house is situated in rural Llano County, Texas, about 50 miles northwest of Austin. It was one of the smaller homes in the "Unlimited Residential" category of the 2018 ICF Builder Awards, but it...
The Drew Castle
2018 Unlimited Residential 1st Runner-Up The Drew Castle, located in Eastern Michigan is actually a 10,000-sq.-ft. private home, built to appear like a traditional manor house. The design includes many authentic touches, both inside and out, including...
Eck Lane Residence
Texas is one of the fastest-growing states in the nation, and hundreds of residential and commercial ICF projects have been built there in the past few years. One of the most remarkable is this custom home built on the outskirts of Austin overlooking Lake Travis....
Carrell Residence
Carrell Residence - Best In Class This estate-class home, built by the Carrell Group, is one of the most remarkable ICF homes in North America. Finished in September of 2016, the massive 30,000-sq.-ft.-plus residence was built over a period of five years in a small...
The Resort Boulevard Home
2016 Unlimited Residential 2nd Runner-Up Modeled after the estates found along the French and Spanish Riviera, the Resort Boulevard home has an aura of grace and elegance that will stand the test of time. The home should last for generations as well, thanks to...
Light Commercial
Helena Shooting Range
2020 Light Commercial2nd Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Helena, MontanaType: Firearm Practice FacilitySize: 6,700 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 14,500 sq. ft. Cost: $1.1 millionTotal Construction: 30 weeksICF Installation Time: 30 days Construction Team Owner: HCO...
Picoso’s Mexican Kitchen
2019 Light Commercial 2nd Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Lubbock, Texas Type: Restaurant Size: 8,360 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 7,300 sq. ft. Cost: $2.3 million Total Construction: 36 weeks ICF Installation Time: 40 days Construction Team Owner: Picoso’s...
Kenwood Elementary Gymnasium
2019 Light Commercial Winner Bend, Oregon is one of the first cities that really accepted ICF construction, and over the past few decades, more than 300 projects have been built in the area with ICF. The latest high-profile commercial project in the city is a...
LCA Early Learning Center
2019 Light Commercial 1st Runner-Up LCA Early Learning Center is a preschool and child care facility in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville. Skipper Smotherman, owner of the Hybrid Group, Inc, says, “This area has been among the top five...
Fuente Cigar Warehouse
2018 Light Commercial Winner As the name suggests, this building is a warehousing and shipping facility for Arturo Fuente Cigars. The company was founded in the Tampa area in 1912, and in the past few decades has grown to be one of the most popular premium cigar...
CMTA Office Building
2018 Light Commercial 1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Lexington, Kentucky Type: Engineering Firm Office Building Size: 11,750 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 9,835 sq. ft. Cost: $2.9 million Total Construction: 330 weeks ICF Installation Time: 90...
Farmington Public Safety Building
2018 Light Commercial 2nd Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Farmington, New Hampshire Type: Police, Ambulance & Fire Station Size: 19,000 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 9,344 sq. ft. Cost: $2.443 million Total Construction: 39 weeks ICF Installation...
Optimum Medical
2017 LIGHT COMMERCIAL RUNNER UP DETAILS COMING SOON Project Statistics Location: Danbury, Conn. Type: Medical Building Size: 6,374 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 6,200 sq. ft. Cost: $1.5 million Total Construction: 46 weeks ICF Installation time: 42 days Construction...
Coca-Cola Pavilion at Disney Springs
The Coca-Cola Pavilion is 18,000 sq. ft. of mixed retail and restaurant space at The Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando. Designed to appear as a remodeled vintage industrial space, it is one of the first ICF applications in a theme park. It was also an extremely...
Heavy Commercial
Showbiz Cinema
2020 Heavy CommercialWinner We honored the ShowBiz Cinema project in Homestead, Florida, with a win in our Heavy Commercial category in our 2020 Builder Awards due to its complexity and its use of ICF. This 9-screen movie theatre, Imax theater, bowling alley, and...
Ward’s Ridge
2019 Heavy CommercialFinalist Ward’s Ridge is an office park in New Castle, Pennsylvania, midway between Pittsburg and Cleveland. Of the three buildings on site, two were built with ICF while the third was stick-framed, providing an excellent cost and schedule...
Tifton Comfort Inn
2008 Heavy Commercial 2nd Runner Up According to the owner, the Comfort Inn in Tifton, Ga., is the “best built hotel in our company.” The hotel walls, constructed with IntegraSpec ICF, keep out the traffic noise on the nearby interstate, minimize energy bills, and can...
Dominion Springs Plaza
2019 Heavy Commercial 1st Runner-Up Dominion Springs Plaza is a high-end retail development consisting of five separate buildings covering more than 53,000 sq. ft. Built in an affluent suburb of San Antonio, it's the first development of its kind in the region. It's...
Discovery Elementary
2019 Heavy Commercial Winner Located just across the Potomac from Washington D.C., Arlington, Virginia, is perhaps best known as the final resting place of presidents and military heroes. But it is also a bustling bedroom community of the nation’s capital, and is one...
Grand Odyssey 8 Theater
2019 Heavy Commercial 2nd Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Watertown, South Dakota Type: Cinema Size: 24,350 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 44,000 sq. ft. Cost: $5 million Total Construction: 36 weeks ICF Installation Time: 38 days Construction Team Owner: Odyssey...
St. Juan Diego Catholic Church
Heavy Commercial-Religious Winner St. Juan Diego Catholic Church, in Chandler, Arizona, is the latest of more than a dozen major ICF projects undertaken by the Catholic Archdiocese of Phoenix. It's an exceptionally complex and ICF-intensive project. With just more...
Douglass High School
Heavy Commercial-Education Winner Kentucky has long been a leader in ICF school construction, with more than three dozen built in the state. The recently completed Frederick Douglass High School in Lexington is an excellent example of this type of project. The school...
Oak Hills Church
2018 Heavy Commercial Finalist The new Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, is a blend of contemporary and traditional Hill Country designs. Begun in August of 2015, the project consisted of a remodel of the existing 115,000-sq.-ft. facility and construction of a...
Education
ICFs and Schools
Alvaton Elementary School, near Bowling Green, Ky., was built entirely with insulated concrete forms from NUDURA Corp. Completed in 2006, the school accommodates 700 students and features spacious classrooms, modern computer labs, a library, gymnasium, and cafeteria....
Hospitality
MultiFamily
The Villas at Riverdale
2020 Senior Living2nd Runner-Up A $14 million first-of-its-kind Canadian project in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, used ICF blocks from Nudura for 100% of its 2,000 sq.ft. of exterior walls. 320 sq.ft. of demising walls (those that separate a tenant's suite from...
Sooke Point
2020 Multi-FamilyWinner Sooke Point includes four ICF vacation triplexes, built at the very edge a seaside cliff at the extreme southwestern tip of Canada.The project was honored as “Best Multifamily Development” at the 2020 ICF Builder Awards earlier this year. The...
Roost 1B
2020 Multi-Family2nd Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Bainbridge Island, WashingtonType: Mixed Use “Live+Work” Development with Four BuildingsSize: 40,000 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 44,000 sq. ft. Cost: $18 millionTotal Construction: 76 weeksICF Installation Time:...
The Lithium
2020 Multi-Family1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Granby, Quebec, CanadaType: 33-Unit Apartment BuildingSize: 45,800 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 46,200 sq. ft. Cost: CAN$3.3 millionTotal Construction: 18 months Construction Team Owner: Les Investissements...
Martin Hall
2019 Multifamily Winner Martin Hall is a student dormitory built on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. The state was an early adopter of commercial ICFs, with numerous ICF schools built in the last decade, and now the technology is...
Meadowbrook Village
2019 Multifamily 1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Escondido, California Type: 66-Unit Retirement Apartment Complex Size: 118,000 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 83,000 sq. ft. Cost: $10 million Total Construction: 70 weeks ICF Installation Time: 150 days ...
Homewood Suites
2019 Multifamily2nd Runner-Up Homewood Suites is a six-story hotel built near the airport of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa. It’s the third major ICF build for the owner and contractor with more projects in the pipeline. They chose ICF because of the inherent energy...
Finnish Rest Home
Multifamily — Winner Finnish Rest Home is a state-of-the-art senior living complex, overlooking a heavily wooded nature park nearby and virtually all of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—just across the river from the northern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. At nine...
Finnish Rest Home
2018 Multi-Family Best in Class Project Statistics Location: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada Type: 9-Story Apartment Building Size: 111,500 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 143,500 sq. ft. Cost: $12.4 million Total Construction: 51 weeks ICF Installation Time:...
MultiFamily Low-Rise
Religious
Pinegrove Church
2007 Light Commercial 2nd Runner Up Faced with a growing congregation and an aging chapel, Pinegrove Church in Kingston, Ontario, decided to build a new facility. After touring a nearby church that had recently been constructed with ICFs, the building committee was...
Holy Cross Catholic Church
2006 Light Commercial 1st Runner Up The first runner-up in the light commercial division is an outstanding example of the beauty that can be achieved with ICF construction.The Holy Cross Catholic Church,in Porterville, Calif., looks like an old mission church hundreds...
Specialty Applications
2016 Calzada Chapel & Pool House
2016 Specialty Application Winner Over the years, the ICF Builder Awards have received a number of innovative projects that didn't fit well in any existing category. In order to give these projects the attention they deserve, we've introduced a new category:...
