WOC 2011 - Great Kick Off
Trav­el­ing back to my home/​office in Atlanta from the recent World of Con­crete Show in Las Vegas, I was able to reflect on some of our company’s recent achieve­ments. The recent World of Con­crete show gave our com­pa­ny a plat­form or per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty to…
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STUDENT–BUILT HOME
This build gave 30 high school stu­dents hands-on expe­ri­ence build­ing a home with Fox Blocks ICF from the ground up.
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Warehouse Layout Design 101: Optimizing Efficiency, Safety, and Comfort
Design­ing a ware­house that runs smooth­ly takes care­ful plan­ning. A smart lay­out helps keep oper­a­tions effi­cient, stor­age orga­nized, and the work­space safe.
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How to Build a Wind-Resistant Home with Fox Blocks ICFs
Trag­i­cal­ly, between 2000 and 2017 there were 894 wind and 1417 tor­na­do-relat­ed deaths. In 2017, 36 per­cent of the wind and 63 per­cent of the tor­na­do-relat­ed fatal­i­ties hap­pened either in a mobile or per­ma­nent home. A wind-resis­tant design is crit­i­cal to a home­’s integri­ty and a family’s safe­ty.
ICF Construction: Theater Owners Like What They Hear AND What They Don't
ICF Wall Sys­tems are the supe­ri­or choice for build­ing com­mer­cial the­aters, due to how they con­tain inter­nal sound as well as mit­i­gate exter­nal sound.
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Keep Calm - That School Was Built With ICFs
Insu­lat­ed Con­crete Form wall sys­tems, Fox Blocks, are a way to cre­ate an extreme­ly safe struc­ture. When teach­ers and stu­dents return to an ICF school, they are pro­tect­ed against these ele­ments.
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NRMCA Hosts Upcoming ICF Contractor Training Seminars
The NRM­CA is a mem­ber­ship orga­ni­za­tion for the con­crete indus­try and is a lead­ing indus­try advo­cate that pro­vides infor­ma­tion and updates to its mem­bers about the lat­est tech­niques, mate­ri­als and tech­nolo­gies.
ICF Builder Awards Round Up
We thought we’d share a round up of some of our pre­vi­ous awards.
Is there a problem when placing concrete, dropping concrete from the top of the wall which may be over 8' (2.4 m)?
No. Spec­i­fi­ca­tions in the Amer­i­ca Con­crete Insti­tute (ACI) do not lim­it the max­i­mum dis­tance con­crete can free fall. Engi­neer­ing stud­ies and reports have shown that free fall from up to 35′ doesn’t reduce con­crete qual­i­ty and there is no evi­dence of seg­re­ga­tion or weak­ened con­crete strength. ICF con­crete design calls for a high slump mix which assists in reduc­ing seg­re­ga­tion.
Properly Placing The Concrete
Depend­ing on the forms’ size and the con­crete core width, the con­crete aggre­gate size and slump should be adjust­ed accord­ing­ly. The ulti­mate goal is to get the cor­rect com­pres­sive strength for the con­crete as spec­i­fied.