Project Profiles
Small Residential
Groves Home
2011 Small Residential 2nd Runner-Up When Marvin and Dolores Groves began planning their dream home in Bastrop, Texas, they knew they wanted to do it right. They generated “mounds of research” looking at the best way to create an appealing, comfortable...
Selkirk Boathouse
2010 Small Residential Best in Class This boathouse with guest accommodations, built into a cliff near Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, is an outstanding example of an environmentally sensitive project that blends premium living accommodations seamlessly...
Voitehovich Residence
2010 Small Residential 1st Runner-Up The construction difficulties faced by Joseph Voitehovich in building his dream home would have discouraged a lesser man. The lot, located at the end of a cul-de-sac, dropped away so steeply that was considered...
Maertz Cottage
2010 Small Residential 2nd Runner-Up The Maertz Cottage, a seasonal home built overlooking a lake near Wabeno, Wisc., is a beautiful example of how ICFs can overcome significant jobsite challenges to create a beautiful, functional residence. The owner, a...
Rigby-Lightner Residence
2009 Small Residential 2nd Runner-Up The builder of this project describes the owners as savvy, technologically inclined people. “They spent years researching and planning their needs,” he writes. “They needed strength due to frequent Florida hurricanes. They needed...
The Primrose at Landfall
2009 Small Residential1st Runner-Up The Primrose looks very much like the others in the neighborhood, but it is truly unique. Not only was it built as a spec home, but it was built to LEED Platinum standards. Completed in May 2009, it is one of the first ICF homes to...
Casa Del Sol
2009 Small ResidentialWinner The owner/builder of this unique residence wanted to create a net-zero passive solar home that blended seamlessly into the old apple orchard and wildflower meadow that surrounds it.He chose an incredibly complex design for a first-time ICF...
Vitale Residence “Extreme Home Makeover”
2008 Small ResidentialWinner Project Statistics Location: Athens, VermontType: Custom Home, built for Extreme Makeover: Home EditionSize: 2,700 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 95% exterior wallsTotal Construction: 7 daysICF Start-to-Finish Time: Approx. 5 hours Construction...
Beledere Bernova
Small Residential 1st Runner Up Project Statistics Location: Iasi, Moldova, RomaniaType: Private ResidenceSize: 2,224 sq. ft. (finished) plus 550 sq. ft. garageICF Use: 2,400 sq. ft. (100% exterior walls), plus EPS roof decking and interior walls Cost:...
Large Residential
Golf Residence
2011 Large Residential Best in Class Built adjacent to a picturesque Arizona golf course, this home is a stunning example of how ICFs can deliver energy-efficiency and durability in an incredibly beautiful package. With 5,900 sq. ft of conditioned living...
Teague Residence
2011 Large Residential 1st Runner-Up Built near the seashore in southeastern Florida, the Teague home is a testament to the beauty with which ICFs can deliver a virtually hurricane-proof structure. Sandy Esterle, who submitted the project on behalf of...
Salero Residence
2010 Large Residential Best in Class The Salero Home in southern Arizona is a beautiful example of an attractive, sustainable, well-built home that blends seamlessly into its surroundings. It’s also an outstanding example of how enormous design and logistical...
Park-Raines Residence
2010 Large Residential 1st Runner-Up The Park-Raines family had decided to build their dream home in Chicago. They were committed to building a sustainable home that would fit their family’s long-term needs, but they also had a limited budget. To...
Green Dream Home
2010 Large Residential 2nd Runner-Up This unassuming house at the end of a quiet street has a secret identity. It’s actually a net-zero energy home—a fully functional year-round residence that generates as much energy as it consumes. Patrick M.B. Chan,...
Spring Haven
2009 Large Residential2nd Runner-Up Like the other winners in this category, this French Country Style home was built as a “spec home.” The first challenge was converting the plans to fit ICF walls. The second was the actual construction, with an octagonal turret,...
2008 Home-A-Rama
2009 Large Residential1st Runner-Up Planned as a spec model home, the European-manor style residence needed to be built quickly. Additionally, it needed to be spectacular enough to wow the thousands of visitors on the Northeast Ohio HBA tour.The developer/builder...
Mare Haven
2009 Large ResidentialWinner Like the winner of the small residential category, this home features sweeping radius walls and complex corners. Designed as an “architectural sculpture,” it also has a large number of custom-curved window openings.Inside, the feeling is...
Onekama Home
2008 Large ResidentialWinner Project Statistics Location: Onekama, MichiganType: Zero Energy Custom HomeSize: 4,100 sq. ft. (floor) ICF Use: 90% of exterior walls, plus Lite-Deck flooringCost: UndisclosedTotal Construction: unknown, finished Dec. 2007ICF...
Unlimited Residential
Carew Residence
At 13,200 square feet, the Carew home is anything but typical. In addition to living areas, the residence has a 34-foot-long indoor swimming pool, a full-size basketball court, a theater, wine cellar, and oval office with spectacular views of nearby Appleton,...
Kostatos Residence
2009 Unlimited Residential2nd Runner-Up This was a first-time ICF project for everyone; the ICF installer, the architect, and the owner. Built on a site just yards from the ocean at Cape Cod, ICFs provide the wind resistance required by local codes. The architect,...
Hegdahl Home
2009 Unlimited Residential1st Runner-Up The Hegdahl home is one of the most innovative ICF projects this judging panel has ever seen. Designed for a remote mountain lot north of Denver, lot setbacks pushed the home to the very edge of a sizable cliff.Dynamiting a...
Carrell Home
2009 Unlimited ResidentialWinner This sprawling 18,000 sq. ft. home scored high in virtually every category. Designed to look and feel like an Italian Villa, it has dozens of windows, a number of arched openings, and too many corners to count, many of which are at odd...
Chelster Hall
2008 Unlimited ResidentialWinner Project Statistics Location: Oakville, OntarioType: Private ResidenceSize: 60,000 sq. ft. (15,000 sq. ft. unfinished)ICF Use: 100% of Exterior walls, plus additional outbuildings and ICF PoolHeight: Approx. 35 feet high (intermediate...
New American Home 2009
2008 Unlimited Residential 1st Runner Up Project Statistics Location: Las Vegas, Nev.Type: Show Home/Single Family ResidenceSize: 9,000 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 12,733 sq. ft. (90% of exterior)Cost: $388 per sq. ft.ICF Brand: ArxxTotal Construction: Jan. ‘08 to Oct....
Ashok Chadha Residence
2008 Unlimited Residential2nd Runner Up Project Statistics Location: Frontenac, OntarioType: Private ResidenceSize: 8,290 sq. ft. (floor)ICF Use: 5,500 sq. ft. (walls) plus EPS deckingCost: $241 per sq. ft.Total Construction: Approx. 18 months (June ‘06 to Jan ‘08)...
O’Donnell Residence
2005 Unlimited Residential1st Runner-Up At over 15,000 sq. ft., this project uses nearly every size and shape of Arxx form manufactured. Smith Brothers, the general contractor and ICF installer, had never built with insulating concrete forms before, but were converted...
Light Commercial
River Oaks Center
2009 Light CommercialWinner Situated halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on historic Highway 101, River Oaks Center is an office/retail space that combines stunning architecture with a remarkable strategy to save Earth’s resources. It’s also the largest...
Los Paseos Joint Use Project
2008 Light CommercialWinner This project has helped open the education and government construction sectors in Northern California to ICFs. The City of San Jose needed a new San Jose, Calif. needed a new recreation facility, and the nearby elementary school needed a...
Taylorsville Crossing Retail Complex
2008 Light Commercial 1st Runner Up “This is truly a case where lemons were turned into lemonade,” says Dan McCullough, ICF distributor for this project. Almost single-handedly, he turned this project from a potential industry black eye to an award winner. The...
East City Gold Plaza
2008 Light Commercial 2nd Runner Up When the owner of this building approached the design team, he made an unusual request. The building needed to be durable enough to last 300 years, and strong enough to support an oriental garden terrace on the roof. ICFs were a...
Dry Creek Offices
2007 WinnerLight Commercial Rimrock Construction considered their options for developing land they owned in an office park just south of Salt Lake City. The professional building they wanted to build on the site needed to be different, more progressive, more ‘green.’...
Fire Station #62 Kalispell
2007 Light Commercial1st Runner Up Much of the credit for the success of Fire Station #62 belongs to Chad Grover, the architect at Grover & Company who was instrumental in the decision to build the exterior shell of the building with ICFs. Grover, who passed away...
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...
East Bay Suites
2006 Light Commercial2nd Runner Up East Bay Suites, a three-story addition to a historic Minnesota hotel, earned 2nd runner-up, light commercial in the 2006 ICF Builder Awards.Connie Chisolm, a marketing manager at Reward Wall Systems, says, “This was a very sensitive...
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...
Heavy Commercial
Richardsville Elementary
2012 Heavy Commercial Winner (Tie) No single project has done more to promote the use of ICFs in the education sector than Richardsville Elementary. Built in Bowling Green, Ky. and completed in time for the 2010-2011 school year, it is the nation’s first...
Glasgow High School
2012 Heavy Commercial 1st Runner Up ICFs are making major inroads in the education sector; the movement was jumpstarted by the Kentucky Dept. of Education and architectural firm Sherman Carter Barnhart. The two organizations remain on the cutting edge of...
Seton Catholic High School
2011 Heavy Commercial 1st Runner-Up The Phoenix Archdiocese has become a major influence in the ICF industry; they’ve built no fewer than 10 major ICF projects in the area, with at least eight more on the drawing board. Seton Catholic High School is one...
H.C. Moore Library, College of the Bahamas
2011 Heavy Commercial Best in Class The H.C. Moore Library, part of the College of the Bahamas in Nassau, is an outstanding example of how ICFs provide an elegant, cost effective solution to many construction challenges. The design favored radius walls;...
Colony Square
2011 Heavy Commercial 2nd Runner-Up Colony Square, a ten-screen theater and associated retail complex is the centerpiece of a downtown revitalization effort for the city of Atascadero, which sits midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on scenic...
Alamosa K-5 School
2010 Heavy Commercial Runner-Up (Tie) The elementary school campus in Alamosa, Colo. consists of two 72,000 sq. ft. school buildings (one housing grades K-2 and the other 3-5) that are connected by playgrounds and landscaping. By far the largest building...
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
2010 Heavy Commercial Runner-Up (Tie) The Phoenix Diocese of the Catholic Church has become a major force in shaping the direction of the ICF industry. They commissioned the St. Mary Magdalene Church in Gilbert, Ariz, which was featured in the June issue...
Village Suites
2010 Heavy Commercial Best in Class Village Suites, a student dormitory in Oshawa Ontario, Canada, is among the largest ICF projects built in recent years. With about 270,000 sq. ft. of floor space and using 175,000 sq. ft. of ICFs, it’s claimed to be...
Emma B. Ward Elementary
2009 Heavy Commercial2nd Runner-Up A few years ago, a project like this one would be a clear winner in the heavy commercialcategory. The fact that it is one ofthree education facilities in the winners’ circle shows how heavily ICFs have penetrated this market. Emma B....
Education
Hospitality
MultiFamily
Oakville Mews
2011 MultiFamily 2nd Runner-Up Oakville Mews is a Craftsman-style complex combining nine townhomes with five street-level revenue suites. Patrick M.B. Chan, a representative for Logix ICF, which provided the forms for the project, explains, “The Town of...
Villa Rose
2010 Multi-Family Best in Class Villa Rose Condominiums in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia proves that ICFs can achieve what would otherwise be impossible. The town of Qualicum Beach is located on Vancouver Island, where humidity, rain, and cold winters take a toll...
Oak Haven Development
2010 MultiFamily 1st Runner-Up When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in 2005, the city of Waveland, Miss., was decimated. Among the casualties was the Bay-Waveland Housing Authority, which was left without housing for 700 children, adults and senior citizens in need of...
Wolf Springs Resort
2010 MultiFamily 2nd Runner-Up Wolf Springs Resort, located midway between Montreal and Toronto, is a different concept in vacation condos. It offer owners luxury cottage-living without the worry and work normally associated with private cottage ownership. ICFs are an...
Carleton College Residence Halls
2009 Multi-Family2nd Runner-Up Carleton College is a small, private liberal arts college. When the school needed a pair of new residence halls, it needed to match the existing campus architecture as well as their philosophy of environmental stewardship. ICFs met...
Central Avenue Villas
2009 Multi-Family1st Runner-Up Central Avenue Villas is three-story condominium complex that shows how intensive ICF use can solve construction challenges and help recoup construction costs by getting tenants into the building sooner.Built in Oklahoma City’s Bricktown...
Shershni Community
2009 Multi-FamilyWinner Among the grey Soviet-era buildings in the Siberian city of Chelyabinsk, the orange and white clad neighborhood of Shershni stand out as a beacon, signaling a better way to build. Using more than 1.5 million sq. ft. of ICFs, and built over a...
West Village
2008 MultiFamilyWinner This project shows that ICFs perform exceptionally well even on the largest multi-family projects. This is one of the largest and most ICF-intensive projects on record, with more than 98,000 square feet of floor space, and all exterior and...
Brownstones at Maywood Park
2008 MultiFamily 1st Runner Up The Brownstones at Maywood Park is a high-end development project that has set a new standard for downtown Oklahoma City. Built in the Flat Iron District in the heart of downtown, it has helped revitalize the community that surrounds...
