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An ICF home plan pro­duces a house that looks just like one built from a wood-frame home plan. How­ev­er, an ICF home has many ben­e­fits over a tra­di­tion­al­ly framed home.

Cab­ins and cot­tages often start as a sec­ond home or week­end retreat. ICF con­struc­tion ensures year-round use of the cab­in.

Fox Block ICF com­mer­cial con­struc­tion min­i­mize air and mois­ture infil­tra­tion and ensures an ener­gy-effi­cient com­mer­cial build­ing.

An ICF foun­da­tion ensures a build­ing is struc­tural­ly sound and that it will effec­tive­ly trans­fer all the loads from the struc­ture into the ground.

Com­mer­cial con­trac­tors and their clients are show­ing a greater inter­est in design­ing build­ings that can stand strong dur­ing nat­ur­al dis­as­ters. In their quest for for­ti­fied mate­ri­als, more of them are turn­ing to ICF con­struc­tion.

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.