Today, home buyers expect to get more from their new home. They want a home that fits their lifestyle, yes; but also a home with solid, high quality construction. Greater comfort and security. Lower energy bills. Lower maintenance. A home that’s healthier to live in and easier on the environment.

It’s becoming harder and harder to meet their new expectations with the same old building technology – wood framing. So, now, more and more builders and home buyers are turning to something new. A modern adaptation of a centuries-old technology using the most proven building material on earth. Concrete.

Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF’s) give you all the benefits that have made concrete the material of choice for home building worldwide: Solid, lasting construction that resists the ravages of fire, wind, and time.

But ICF’s do plain concrete one better – or rather, two better – by giving you two built-in layers of foam insulation. This gives an ICF home some sizable advantages over an ordinary stick-built home. Greater energy efficiency. More peace & quiet. More day-to-day living comfort. All wrapped up in a solid, high-quality building package that gives an ICF home a remarkable feel. As soon as you step inside, you can tell that an ICF home is not an ordinary house. It’s not just beautiful, comfortable and quiet. You can feel that it’s solid, built to last.

For more information visit the Portland Cement Association website.

"Concrete draws upon some of the earth's most common minerals for its raw materials...Concrete homes come in any shape or size you can imagine...They are beautiful, strong, durable, low maintenance, energy efficient, quiet and environmentally friendly." Concrete Homes

"Portland Cement is manufactured from limestone, clay and sand. Scrap tires and other combustible waste that would otherwise take valuable land in land fills are often used as a fuel source in cement manufacturing." Concrete Homes

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The home is built with “insulating concrete forms,” foam blocks stacked and filled with reinforced concrete. Stutler and a crew of amateurs did most of the stacking, with help and advice from Frank Brock of Reno’s Brock & Weigl construction. Proponents claim ICF is stronger, lasts longer and is quieter than conventional construction. It’s virtually rodent- and fireproof, and “it kills a lot fewer trees,” Anglin said.

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