| An energy efficient home saves its owner money | | | | and money at the construction site. An ICF |
| over time. This is mostly realized through lower | | | | concrete home is put together by simply stacking |
| heating and cooling costs. But, is there an initial | | | | the forms on top of one another. The forms are |
| cost that makes investing into energy efficiency | | | | then snapped into place like children's toy blocks. |
| out of reach for some people? And, are there | | | | The forms come to the site ready to be |
| unknown consequences to using strange building | | | | emplaced; therefore, less energy is used to cut |
| techniques that could harm the environment or | | | | them into the correct size and the workers |
| even the people residing in a home? Is an energy | | | | themselves are able to work quickly and |
| efficient home really worth it? | | | | efficiently. Plus, if building materials did not need to |
| For the person looking to build a new home there | | | | be cut to fit, there will be less waste to haul |
| is an efficient new building technology that | | | | away leaving a more efficient construction site! |
| answers these questions. A builder who | | | | An efficient home in the long run is what every |
| constructs a home using insulated concrete forms | | | | homeowner desires. Saving energy to heat or |
| (ICF) will give his or her customer an energy | | | | cool a home is very important to the |
| efficient home from before construction long, long | | | | environment and the wallet. The ICF concrete |
| into the future. Before? The ICF concrete walls | | | | form will satisfy the desires of the energy |
| created through the use of an integrated wall | | | | conscience homeowner. A home built with this |
| system are efficiently engineered and made using | | | | technology will have walls with an R-value of forty |
| recycle metals as framing. This means an ICF | | | | to fifty. These numbers mean that this type of |
| house is saving energy (and landfill space) as it is | | | | integrated wall system makes these homes some |
| being first designed. | | | | of the most efficient homes in the country. |
| The design of these forms saves energy, time, | | | | |