Project Profiles
Small Residential
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,...
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
2014 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
2014 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...
Large Residential
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...
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
2016 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,...
Unlimited Residential
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...
Clayton Residence
2016 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
2014 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...
Light Commercial
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...
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
2014 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...
Heavy Commercial
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...
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...
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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:...
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,...
