The long-term benefits of ICFs played a major factor in the decision by the Franklin County Board of Education in Kentucky to choose the concrete and foam building system for its new elementary school last year.
Two decades after he built his first apartment building and only two months into his first ICFs project, Richard Colasuonno has no intention of ever building another stick-frame building again.
In his two decades of specializing in artisan plastering in California, contractor John Bass has discovered it’s hard to beat the beauty of Venetian plaster, and he’s enjoyed the recent surge in interest in the ancient limestone finish.
Being able to implement creative shapes in EIFS is an important part of the total package contractor Brian Mead, owner of Commercial Builders in Pompano Beach, Fla., brings to the table in negotiations for new jobs.
Charlie Perry is on a crusade to change the way homes are built and insured in the United States and he’s beginning his campaign right in his own house, with his own money.
For 35 years contractor and inventor Pete Konopka has been pursuing the Holy Grail of modern buildings– a “zero-net-energy” structure that provides all of its own energy onsite and is not dependent on the electrical grid for ANY electricity–and is convinced he’s on the brink of success.