Build an Energy-wise House with Insulated Concrete Forms

Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF's) provide a lasting building envelope, giving you all the benefits that have made concrete the material of choice for home building worldwide. They provide solid, lasting construction that resists the ravages of fire, wind and Father Time.

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 and quiet, enhanced day-to-day living comfort. All of this is wrapped up in a solid, high-quality building package with an utterly remarkable feel that really has to be experienced to be believed. As soon as you step inside, you can tell that an ICF home is not an ordinary house. It’s not just beautiful, but comfortable and quiet. You can feel that it’s built to last.

You can get superior ICF technology for a lot less than you’d think. ICF's are so efficient to build with and easy to use, that the cost of building an ICF house is comparable to that of an ordinary 2x6 wood-framed house. But you get so much more home for your money.

ICF's are not new—they've been around for the past 30 years. ICF construction takes the three-step process of framing, insulating, and wrapping a home, and ties it all into one. Constructed from expanded polystyrene and stacked like building blocks to form the exterior walls of a home, the forms are reinforced with steel and filled with concrete. The forms interlock and fasten one to the other to provide seamless "foundation to rafter" fully insulated, reinforced concrete walls. ICF's stay in place as a permanent part of the wall assembly.

Learn more by contacting County Materials today at (800) 289-2569.