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Fox Blocks ICF announced that it will acquire select key assets from Reward Wall Sys­tems, Inc, inte­grat­ing those assets into its own oper­a­tions and aug­ment­ing the Fox Blocks Insu­lat­ed Con­crete Form (ICF) prod­uct line.

Many con­trac­tors ask us the same ques­tion: Is ICF more expen­sive than CMU? Here’s why ICF walls are less expen­sive than CMU and offer bet­ter ben­e­fits.

Insu­lat­ed con­crete form blocks pro­vide a host of advan­tages over tra­di­tion­al CMUs, includ­ing bet­ter ener­gy effi­cien­cy, eas­i­er con­struc­tion, and improved resilience.

The build­ing indus­try has seen a rel­a­tive­ly recent trend of archi­tects, design­ers, and home­own­ers mov­ing away from ener­gy con­sump­tive forms of con­struc­tion and the imple­men­ta­tion of more sus­tain­able, less expen­sive con­struc­tion meth­ods.

Base­ments are no longer a scary, damp, and musty area. Learn about the new base­ment and how it has become the mod­ern hous­ing inno­va­tion it is today.

Every struc­ture, from tow­er­ing sky­scrap­ers to qui­et fam­i­ly homes, relies on rebar to pro­vide the strength and sta­bil­i­ty that con­crete alone can­not deliv­er.

Fox Blocks Vice Pres­i­dent Mike Ken­naw and East Coast Sales Man­ag­er Bri­an Med­ford par­tic­i­pat­ed in the 3^rd Annu­al Fed­er­al Asset Man­age­ment Pol­i­cy Forum and Expo in the Wash­ing­ton, D.C. area the week of Octo­ber 17, 2016.

Every ware­house begins with a num­ber, the cost per square foot that sets expec­ta­tions for design and deliv­ery. The cost to build a 5000 sq ft ware­house isn’t fixed; it shifts with site con­di­tions, mate­r­i­al choic­es, and ener­gy goals.

For build­ing code base­ment insu­la­tion, there are 7 impor­tant things to know.