Project Profiles
Small Residential
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...
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
2013 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,...
Burnham Project
2013 Small Residential Winner Located in Otonobee Township, near Peterborough, Ontario about 50 miles east of Toronto, this home shows that ICFs are just as well-suited for smaller spec homes as they are for large custom residences. This residence was...
Zemke Residence
2012 Small Residential Winner Located on a small lake in southern New Hampshire, this home shows that ICFs are perfect for dream homes of all sizes. The homesite was chosen to preserve the native landscape while maximizing the peaceful views and...
Kay Residence
2012 Small Residential 1st Runner Up This project was built as a “Universal Design” (UD) home, merging sustainable, green building technology with design concepts that allow people of all ages and abilities to live their entire life in their own home. In...
Large Residential
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,...
Durable Energy Builder Home
2014 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...
Curly House
2013 Large Residential 1st Runner-Up Curly House, located in West Sussex near England's southern shore, used ICF construction to solve a number of vexing problems. The owner wanted to build an affordable, low-energy building in a region with relatively...
Fort Worth Residence
2013 Large Residential Winner This high-end custom home on the outskirts of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex has dozens of unique ICF features. In fact, this was one of the reasons behind its construction. The owner, who has been involved with the ICF...
San Pietro
2012 Large Residential Winner Built as a model home by Carrell Group in Myrtle Beach, S.C., this residence is a showcase for energy efficiency, beauty, and disaster resistance. It’s one of the first in the area to earn the insurance industry’s IBHS...
Unlimited Residential
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...
Casa Bella Verde
2012 Unlimited Residential Winner (Tie) Situated on the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California, Casa Bella Verde is a magnificent example of energy efficiency, sustainability, and design ingenuity. More than that, it showcases how ICF...
Maryland Net Zero Home
2011 Unlimited Residential Best in Class Imagine an attractive, late-model automobile with this unique feature: it would create as much fuel as it consumes, and would never need a fill-up. That type of vehicle would receive unprecedented coverage from...
34 Collins Avenue
2011 Unlimited Residential Runner-Up Dewey Beach, Del., is a prime vacation destination for those in nearby Washington D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia. But the ocean views and quiet streets also present significant construction challenges—especially...
Light Commercial
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...
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...
Kiowa County Commons
2011 Light Commercial Best in Class Kiowa County Commons is the centerpiece of the rebuilding effort in Greensburg Kansas. Literally wiped of the map by an EF-5 tornado is 2009, the town has vowed to rebuild using sustainable, disaster resistant...
Cascade Meadows
2011 Light Commercial 1st Runner-Up Cascade Meadows is a science center and meeting space administered by a non-profit organization to teach youth about wetland environments. The building is owned by those who know about the fragility of ecosystems, so...
Buckeye Valley Fire Station
2011 Light Commercial 2nd Runner-Up The Buckeye Valley Fire Station in Arizona is one of a new generation of ICF buildings, riding the leading edge of the green building wave that’s engulfing the light commercial market. At 18,000 sq. ft. the project...
Heavy Commercial
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
2014 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...
Cabela’s
2014 Heavy Commercial 2nd Runner-Up Cabela's is a sporting goods store in the original sense of the word. Catering to hunting, fishing, and other outdoor pursuits, it sees itself as "the world's foremost outfitter," dedicated to providing products of exceptional...
Trinity United Methodist Church
2014 Heavy Commercial 1st Runner-Up Trinity United Methodist Church is a milestone ICF project. Located midway between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, the 75,000 sq. ft. building dominates the landscape. Weight-bearing ICF walls soar to 70 feet above grade without...
Academy at Nola Dunn
2013 Heavy Commercial Winner ICFs have proven to be extremely well-suited for projects in the education sector. This year’s “Best Heavy Commercial” project sets another benchmark. While other Texas schools have incorporated ICF technology, primarily in...
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MultiFamily
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...
Hotel L’Esterel
2013 MultiFamily 2nd Runner-Up Estérel Resort is a luxury 4-star destination located in the Laurentide mountains about an hour northeast of Montreal, Quebec. Situated on a narrow peninsula between three lakes, and surrounded by nature, the property is...
Cornerview Apartments
2012 MultiFamily Winner Cornerview Apartments features 15 affordable housing units on three floors. The unique corner windows featured throughout the building are one of its strongest selling points. “High-quality affordable housing with excellent floor...
New Casa
2012 MultiFamily 1st Runner Up The New Casa duplex in Calgary, Alberta, is a great example of how an experienced ICF installer can turn an extremely complex project into a beautiful neighborhood landmark. The challenges began when it became clear the...
