Project Profiles
Small Residential
Stone Creek
 2017 Small Residential Runner Up Charis Homes is a custom homebuilder located in Northeastern Ohio. Founded by Todd Scott and Glenna Wilson in 2003, they have become a top-rated residential contractor by focusing on providing a "quieter, healthier home that is...
Ecologia Montreal
2016 Small Residential 1st Runner-Up The story of Ecologia Montreal begins when Sabine Karsenti purchased a century-old residence in the heart of Montreal. Originally built in the 1890s, the house had been abandoned for some time, and it was a middle unit in a long...
Shade Residence
 2016 Small Residential Winner When Mark Shade and his family moved to the San Francisco area from Spain, he wanted his new home to offer the style and permanence he'd found in Europe. There, homes are made to last centuries. He spent the next two years researching...
Robertson Home
2014Â Small Residential Finalist When Guy and Heather Robertson discussed building their dream home in rural Texas, two priorities consistently rose to the top: energy efficiency and tornado resistance. These factors are understandable, considering the extreme Texas...
The Preserve At Mountain Vista – Evergreen Model Home
 2014 Small Residential 2nd Runner-Up Imagine a house that generates all of its own energy needs, yet costs the same as any other home built to code minimum standards. Now imagine an entire neighborhood with this type of home, and it's easy to understand why the...
Shore Road Project
2014Â Small Residential Winner At the 2014 ICF Builder Awards, top honors in the Small Residential Category went to the Shore Road Project. The home belongs to Chris Murphy, co-owner and president of Murphy Brothers Contracting, Inc. For years, Murphy Brothers has used...
Nail Residence
 2014 Small Residential 1st Runner Up Project Statistics Location: Canton, Texas Type: Custom Home Size: 3,000 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 2,776 sq. ft. Cost: $385,000 Total Construction: 6 months ICF Installation time: 10 days Construction Team Owner: J. & D. Nail...
Artist Studio
2013Â Small Residential 2nd Runner-Up This cozy building adjacent to the owner's home in Santa Rosa, California, was built as an artist studio, sculpture gallery, and performance space. Arlette Cummings, owner of an architectural design firm, drew up the...
Sedona Home
2013 Small Residential 1st Runner-Up This striking home in Sedona, Arizona marries Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School architecture with the local southwestern architectural aesthetic, creating a residence that offers excellent views, an open floor plan,...
Large Residential
Panella Residence
2016 Large Residential 2nd Runner-Up Insulated Concrete Forms are still a relatively unknown method of construction in the Tennessee Valley. But Chuck Parks of Parks ICF is changing that, one remarkable project at a time. One outstanding recent projects is the Panella...
Shelving Rock Home
The Shelving Rock Home—located a few miles northwest of Albany, NY—is a landmark ICF project. The remarkably functional and beautiful design also meets two demanding design criteria. It's registered as a Net-Zero Ready home by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, and also meets...
Kuebitz Residence
From the outside, the French-Mediterranean-styled Kuebitz Residence resembles many others in Southern California, with wide porches, tiled roofline, and a stucco exterior accented at the corners with cut stone. Inside, the home has a Middle-Eastern flair, with a...
Hansen Home
2016Â Large Residential 1st Runner-Up Building a dream home in Iowa can be challenging. The region experiences hot summers, extremely cold winters, the occasional tornado, and high humidity that can cause mold and mildew. So when Jeanne and Scot Hansen began planning...
House Of Bryan 3
2016 Large Residential Winner The House of Bryan is perhaps the best known residential ICF project yet built. "Bryan" refers to Bryan Baeumler, host of one of the most popular shows on Canadian cable TV. In each season, the series follows the construction of a new...
511 Craigmohr
 2014 Large Residential 1st Runner-Up The residence at 511 Craigmohr in West Vancouver, B.C., Canada, is an excellent example of ICF and timber frame hybrid construction. Gregg Yanke, owner of Nothing But Concrete, Ltd., served as general contractor, ICF installer,...
Durable Energy Builder Home
2014Â Large Residential Winner With just less than 6,000 sq. ft. of floor space and a typical brick-and-stucco finish, this Houston-area home looks unassuming. But in truth, it's one of the most innovative homes in the country. It's been the subject of unprecedented...
Knoxville Residence
2014 Large Residential 2nd Runner-Up Built atop a ridge in Eastern Tennessee, this beautiful home combines the look of traditional timber-frame construction with the safety and efficiency of cutting-edge ICF technology. Sustainability was one of the primary factors in...
Vireo Eco-Luxury Home
2013 Large Residential 2nd Runner-Up The Vireo home is built into a steep lot near the Rocky Mountain foothills, overlooking Boulder, Colo. It was designed from the beginning to offer a maximum of style and luxury with minimal energy consumption. The...
Unlimited Residential
Clayton Residence
2016Â Unlimited Residential Winner The Clayton Residence is one of the largest and most remarkable homes built in the U.S. recently. Completed last year in an affluent suburb northeast of Phoenix, Ariz., the home has more than 28,000 sq. ft. With a home of this size in...
Maison De La Pomme
2016 Unlimited Residential 1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Type: Single Family Residential Size: 17,000 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 26,500 sq. ft. Total Construction: 24 months ICF Installation time: 210 days Construction Team General...
Hanawalt Residence
2014Â Unlimited Residential 1st Runner-Up The Hanawalt family of Waverley, Iowa, wanted a high quality, energy-efficient home. They also wanted it to be safe and comfortable, as the area is prone to fires, high winds, floods, hot summer heat, and extreme cold. When the...
Simon & Harris Home
 2014 Unlimited Residential 2nd Runner-Up The design of this beautiful Indiana home was inspired by the stately Victorian summer homes on the Northeastern coast of the U.S. The multiple wrap-around porches—oriented for optimum lake views—turrets, and bay windows...
Janecek Residence
 2014 Unlimited Residential Winner This massive home is a landmark in the town of Princeton, Texas, located about 25 miles northeast of Dallas. With 15,600 sq. ft. of indoor space on six levels and an octagonal tower rising more than 70 feet above the footers, it is...
Fortune Residence
2013 Unlimited Residential Winner This stately dream home is the result of close cooperation between the owners and a design/build firm using ICFs for the first time. The Georgian-style façade of this home was inspired by Chatham Manor, a nearby...
Hoffman Residence
2013 Unlimited Residential 1st Runner-Up ICFs are often chosen by homeowners who value energy efficiency and disaster resistance. This home, located about an hour south of Salt Lake City, Utah, maximizes both of these attributes. It nearly qualifies as a Net-Zero...
Owen White
 2013 Unlimited Residential 2nd Runner-Up This project began when the owners of a lakeside cottage wanted an addition, but the structural engineer said the walls and footings weren't strong enough. On one visit to the property, they noticed that in spite of harsh...
Silverleaf House
2012 Unlimited Residential Runner-Up Silverleaf House, is one of the most stunning examples of Spanish Colonial architecture in a state known for outstanding examples of this style. ICFs accommodated the design far better than most systems. It was...
Light Commercial
Christian Life Center
2016 LIGHT COMMERCIAL 1st RUNNER-UP CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER The Christian Life Center in Dayton, Ohio needed a new worship facility. About a decade ago, the church began the move towards “one church in several locations," adding three additional locations with a goal of...
Washington Street Office
 2016 Light Commercial 2nd Runner-Up New England is notoriously resistant to change, but a three-story office building recently completed in New Hampshire is one indication that ICFs may be gaining respect in the region. The design/build project was headed up by Groen...
Our Lady Of Sorrows Catholic Church
2016 Light Commercial Winner ICF use is well-established in Arizona, and church construction played an early role in driving commercial market growth in the area, with more than a dozen ICF religious buildings completed in the region. So when the Society of St. Pius...
Morning Star Academy
2014Â Light Commercial 2nd Runner-Up Morning Star Academy is a non-denominational Christian school located in Bonham, Texas, just a few miles south of the Oklahoma border. The school opened in 2011 with a large multi-purpose room and classrooms for the early elementary...
Fire Station 108
 2014 Light Commercial Winner The story of Fire Station 108 began about five years ago, when the Las Vegas city council decided that all construction projects funded by the municipality should be certified to a minimum LEED-Silver level by the U.S. Green Building...
Musgrave Agencies
 2014 Light Commercial 1st Runner-Up This 24,000 sq. ft. building built in Northern Alberta is corporate headquarters of a real estate development company. Located midway between Edmonton and Saskatoon, they develop more than 250 residential lots each year as well as...
All Saints Catholic Newman Center
2013 Light Commercial Winner Winner of the Best Light Commercial Project for 2013, the All Saints Catholic Newman Center is a landmark on several levels. It is located adjacent to the Arizona State University Campus on the corner of University Drive and...
Willemstad Bank
2013 Light Commercial 1st Runner-Up Located on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles, this project began as an addition onto a colonial bank building originally built in 1778. The addition needed to mimic the finish details of the...
Seventh-day Adventist Church
 2013 Light Commercial 2nd Runner-Up ICFs’ green features and energy efficiency are strong selling points, especially when the developer is also the long-term owner. A Seventh-day Adventist congregation in Southern California discovered ICF construction would be a...
Heavy Commercial
Rancho Sienna Elementary School
2018 Heavy Commercial (Education) 1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Georgetown, Texas Type: Elementary School Size: 118,000 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 175,000 sq. ft. Cost: $24.8 million Total Construction: 60 weeks ICF Installation Time: 155 days...
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...
Whitewater Crossing Christian Church
2018 Heavy Commercial (Religious) 1st Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Cleves, Ohio Type: Church/New Construction and Remodel Size: 57,000 new/95,000 total sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 38,500 sq. ft. Cost: $12.8 million Total Construction: 96 weeks ICF...
Health City Cayman Islands
 2016 Heavy Commercial Winner Health City is a 107,000-sq.-ft. hospital built on Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean. It is one of the first ICF hospitals in the world, and is just the first phase of a massive development that is anticipated to eventually include...
San Francisco de Asis Church
The San Francisco de Asis Church in Flagstaff, Arizona, is the latest ICF project completed for the Phoenix Archdiocese of the Catholic Church. With soaring ICF gables and an elegantly sloped bell tower, it is truly a landmark project for the region....
Pierce County Readiness Center
The new Pierce County Readiness Center near Tacoma, Wa., is a benchmark ICF project demonstrating superior aesthetics, remarkable efficiency, and uncompromising durability. The multi-purpose facility replaced the old Tacoma Armory, and is arguably the most innovative...
Heninger Toyota
 2016 Heavy Commercial 2nd Runner-Up Heninger Toyota is a state-of-the-art automobile dealership built in the heart of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Opened to the public last fall, the service department features a drive-in sensor track, which X-rays the incoming...
Park City Film Studios
2016 Heavy Commercial 1st Runner-Up Park City, Utah, is best known in the entertainment industry as the location of the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the United States. Now, the town is also gaining attention for the new cutting edge...
Saint Peter’s Anglican Church
2014Â Heavy Commercial Winner St. Peter's Anglican Church is a landmark, both for the ICF industry as a whole and in the city of Tallahassee, Fla., where it is located. The story begins in 2005, when approximately 700 members and several prominent clergy members...
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MultiFamily
Beach Green North
2018 Multi-Family 2nd Runner-Up Project Statistics Location: Far Rockaway, New York Type: 101-Unit Apartment Building Size: 108,350 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 79,140 sq. ft. Cost: $32 million Total Construction: 77 weeks ICF Installation Time: 95 days...
Newmarket Apartments
2018 Multi-family 1st Runner-Up This 15-story, 212-unit apartment building is located in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, just north of Toronto. With 292,500 sq. ft. of floor space, it is one of the largest ICF buildings constructed in recent years. Ken...
Frost Street Apartments
 2017 Multi-Family 1st Runner Up This seven-story apartment complex is located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The 45,000-sq.-ft. building has 46 units, all of which are earmarked for low-income residents. As a publicly-funded project, it...
Graymoor Friary
Graymoor Friary is one of the most unique ICF projects completed recently. Built into the side of a substantial hill, the building provides housing and worship space for 20 Franciscan friars. Sam Dillehay, at Alfandre Architecture, explains that the firm...
Palermo Vista Townhomes
2016 Multifamily 2nd Runner-Up Palermo Vista, an ICF townhome development on the northern outskirts of Orlando, Florida, sets a new benchmark for sustainability, quality, and speed of construction. The 53,000-square-foot, 16-unit project is designed to resemble Tuscan...
Richmond Street Apartments
2014 Multifamily Winner London, Ontario—located midway between Toronto and Detroit—is the largest city in the southwestern part of the province and home to the University of Western Ontario. Like the universities in the Kitchner/Waterloo areas closer to Toronto,...
Lakeside Residences
 2014 Multifamily 1st Runner-UpThe town of Keswick, Ontario, about forty miles north of Toronto, was facing a shortage of affordable housing. The waiting list of singles, seniors and families needing housing assistance in this town was years-long, reportedly topping...
Waterloo 22-Story Dormitory
2013 MultiFamily Winner The city of Waterloo, Ontario, located just west of Toronto is a university town. It's also a hotbed for ICF construction, and the city has built a number of massive ICF student housing projects in recent years. The latest is a...
Ricchi Condos
 2013 MultiFamily 1st Runner-Up The Ricchi Condominiums in San Antonio, Texas, is a landmark accomplishment for the ICF industry in South Texas. Jerry Batey, owner of ICF Pros, the ICF installation subcontractor, says, "There have been residential and a...
