Project Profiles
Small Residential
Iowa Nest Residence
2020 Small ResidentialWinner The Iowa Nest Residence began with an ambitious goal: build a Net Zero Energy home on a conventional construction budget without compromising design.To achieve its energy goals, the home is built to Passive House standards, which includes...
Stid Hill House
2020 Small Residential2nd Runner-Up Stid Hill House is located in rural New York, about 100 miles east of Buffalo in the “Finger Lakes” region of the state. Vic Logan, who served as general contractor and ICF installer, is not a full-time construction professional,...
Phoenix Rising Fire Tower
2020 Small Residential1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Broken Bow, OklahomaType: Vacation RentalSize: 1,900 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 2,800 sq. ft. Cost: $130,000Total Construction: 40 weeksICF Installation Time: 18 days Construction Team Owner: A....
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...
Large Residential
Hurricane Harvey Rebuild
2020 Large Residential2nd Runner-Up When Hurricane Harvey roared ashore in August of 2017 as a Category 4 storm, it hit the Texas Gulf coast with wind speeds in excess of 130 mph. Days later, it flooded Houston with catastrophic amounts of rain. Causing more than $100...
Van Leeuwen Residence
2020 Large Residential1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Aylmer, Ontario, CanadaType: Custom HomeSize: 4,800 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 9,400 sq. ft. Cost: CAN $1.2 millionTotal Construction: 46 weeksICF Installation Time: 25 days Construction Team Fast Facts ...
Afton Home
2020 Large ResidentialWinner The Afton Home is a great example of “safe, sustainable, and beautiful;” a phrase that is also the tagline for ICF Homes of Virginia. The company was the general contractor for the construction of this 4,500-sq.-ft. custom home built in...
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...
Unlimited Residential
The Pinnacle
2020 Unlimited Residential2nd Runner-Up The Pinnacle is an ultra-modern home with passive solar design, massive windows and a walkable rooftop terrace. It’s located on a lot overlooking a small lake in Komoka, a suburb of London in southwest Ontario, Canada. “There is...
Godfrey Virginia Beach
2020 Unlimited ResidentialWinner Project Statistics Location: Virginia Beach, VirginiaType: Custom HomeSize: 13,700 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 11,000 sq. ft. Cost: $3.2 millionTotal Construction: 4 weeksICF Installation Time: 90 days Construction Team Owner:...
Williams Project
2020 Unlimited Residential1st Runner-Up Built on a hillside overlooking a beautiful Texas lake, this four-story custom home is an example of how beautiful, strong, energy efficient homes can be built to withstand extreme weather events without compromising on...
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...
Light Commercial
CHUGACH POWDER GUIDES
2020 Light CommercialFinalist The Chugach Mountains, located just east of Anchorage, Alaska, have vast potential as a skier’s paradise, with 750,000 acres of skiable terrain and 700 average inches of powder snowfall each year. The area is virtually undeveloped—most of...
Warner Fire Rescue
2020 Light CommercialWinner Project Statistics Location: Warner, Hew HampshireType: Fire StationSize: 11,000 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 12,000 sq. ft. Cost: 2.75 millionTotal Construction: 38 weeksICF Installation Time: 27 days Construction Team Owner: Town of...
Give Me Shelter Project
2020 Light Commercial1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Belmont, New YorkType: Animal ShelterSize: 16,600 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 10,700 sq. ft. Cost: 2.9 millionTotal Construction: 160 weeksICF Installation Time: 27 days Construction Team Owner: SPCA of...
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...
Heavy Commercial
Granbury High School
2021 Heavy Commercial Seeing a school built out of ICF is always an exciting prospect, because you know it's going to safely and sustainably shelter students for decades to come. Granbury High School in Granbury, Texas (just west of Dallas/Fort Worth) was particularly...
Saugeen Police Headquarters
2020 Heavy Commercial2nd Runner-Up A $6.8 million police station in Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada used ICFs for construction, and now the police department has a quiet, safe headquarters. Every detail in the new Saugeen Shores Police Service building was carefully...
Jennings Creek Elementary
2020 Heavy Commercial1st Runner-Up Not long ago, zero-energy construction was thought to be unattainable in a cost-effective manner. That changed when Richardsville Elementary was built. Located in Bowling Green, Ky., and completed in time for the 2010-2011 school...
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...
Education
Douglass High School
2018 Heavy Commercial (Education) Best in Class Project Statistics Location: Lexington, Kentucky Type: High School Size: 287,125 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 100,000 sq. ft. Cost: $63 million Total Construction: 104 weeks ICF Installation Time: 150 days...
West High School
The town of West was a typical small Texas town. Located about 70 miles south of Dallas, it has a population of a few thousand and a sizable fertilizer plant, which had produced ammonium nitrate for farmers in the region without incident for more than 50 years.All...
South Warren High School & Middle School
Warren County, Ky., is growing rapidly; the school district averages 200 to 300 new students every year. To address that issue, Warren County Public Schools has built at least seven new schools over the last decade or so, most of which have been built with ICF. Among...
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
Chesapeake Village Center
2020 MultiFamilyFinalist A mixed-use building with retail outlets on the ground floor underneath three floors of apartments in Stevensville, Maryland, are the most energy-efficient apartment homes built to date in Maryland. Chesapeake Village Center was the first...
Heritage Square Retirement Living
2020 Senior Living1st Runner-UpProject Statistics Location: Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, CanadaType: Assisted Living Retirement Home Size: 62,000 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 33,400 sq. ft. Cost: CAN$15.5 millionTotal Construction: 72 weeksICF Installation Time: 50...
Hazeldean Gardens Retirement Center
2020 Senior LivingWinner A retirement residence in Stittsville, Ontario, Canada, is nothing short of amazing. Hazeldean Gardens Retirement Residence has everything that residents and staff would want: a south-facing courtyard at the rear of the building, covered...
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 ...
MultiFamily Low-Rise
Religious
Sun Valley Community Church
2008 Heavy Commercialrunner Up Project Statistics Location: Gilbert, Ariz.Type: Church, Mezzanine, and ClassroomsSize: 84,000 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 52,000 sq. ft. (walls)Height: 34 feet, reaching 50’ high on mezzanineICF System: Walls by Arxx; Bracing by...
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
Corn Mill Farm
2018 SPECIALTY PROJECT BEST IN CLASS Corn Mill Farm is a striking example of how the many features of ICF—energy efficiency, strength, ease of use, and design flexibility—can simplify even the most complex project. This project, located in the...
Anderson Pool
2018 SPECIALTY PROJECT1st Runner Up ICF swimming pools are becoming more common, and with this project, it's easy to see why. ICFs are highly insulative and easy to adapt. This project is an outstanding example of these attributes. The Anderson Pool in Boone, Iowa,...
Fort Worth Waterfall
2017 SPECIALTY PROJECT BEST IN CLASS Winner of the "Best Specialty Application" at last year's ICF Builder Awards, this backyard water feature in Fort Worth, Texas showcases the design flexibility of insulated concrete forms. Cameron Ware, the Texas ICF distributor...
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:...
