New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity ICF Project, November 2023
In November, BuildBlock sponsored and led a small residential housing project with the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity in Louisiana as a part of the NRMCA’s Build With Strength initiative. This build featured a small duplex built on the NOLA Area Habitat’s campus that will be used to house…
Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity Builds Two Net Zero Ready and Disaster-Resilient Concrete Homes with BuildBlock Insulating Concrete Forms
BuildBlock is proud to expand awareness of the benefits of cost-effective concrete construction through building energy-efficient, disaster-resilient, and sustainable housing with the NRMCA, Build With Strength and Habitat for Humanity. Build with Strength, a program of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association is partnering with Habitat for Humanity International to…
Video: Restoring Old Buildings With ICFs
Hear longtime BuildBlock ICF Installer, Jay Ladwig, discuss the incredible possibilities of restoring old buildings with Insulating Concrete Forms. We also met with Richard Simunek, who chose BuildBlock ICFs to restore an old gas station, turning it into a beautiful Airbnb. Video Transcript: "We're in Hennessey, Oklahoma and the project…
ICF Review: First Time ICF Builders Give Their Honest Impressions
About This Video BuildBlock visited Santa Fe New Mexico in November of 2021 to assist in the build of 2 Habitat for Humanity Homes. Watch this video to hear from several volunteers on what it was like building with BuildBlock ICFs for the first time! These builds are part of…
Green Casa Maryland Wins the ICF Builder Award for Best Large Residential
Green Casa Maryland is a nonprofit committed to showcasing sustainability in construction. To do this, they built a beautiful 5,200 square foot, LEED certified, net zero model home. The team at Green Casa Maryland came to the conclusion that the only way to accomplish this goal is to pair…
Video: ICF Waterproofing with PolyWall Building Solutions
Video Transcript I'm Dan Thomas, the Business Development Manager for PolyWall Building Solutions. We're a division of PolyGuard products, an employee-owned, Texas-based manufacturer of a number of different air and water barrier systems. The particular system we've got on this project is our PolyWall Homestretch membrane. This is designed specifically…
The Daughtrey Residence
The first ICF home in Duncan, Oklahoma is recognized as a top project at the 2018 ICF Builder Awards Max Daughtrey wanted to build a home for himself that performed exceptionally well but looked like "a normal house". To accomplish this goal, he chose to build with ICFs. Daughtrey was…
Featured Project: Stid Hill House
ICFs in the Finger Lakes: Maximum Energy Savings, Minimum Maintenance, and Extra Protection Completed in May of 2019, this featured project is the Stid Hill House. Built by Victor Logan in the heart of the New York Finger Lakes region, and has been recognized at the 2020 ICF Builder Awards…
Strength in the Storm: The Florida Beach House
The Florida Beach House wins second place in the category of Large Residential at the 2019 ICF Builder Awards. The Florida Beach House Proves How Strong, Efficient, and Beautiful an ICF Home Can Be The ICF industry hangs its hat on a few defining benefits; energy efficiency, ease of construction,…
The Cassel Cabin
As Tina and Denny Cassel were planning for their future, they seized upon the unique opportunity to design and build their own vacation home. They had always been drawn to the rustic style of the log cabin but knew that in order to build the home they wanted, they would…