10 Steps for Building a Home with Insulated Concrete Form Blocks
An ICF home, like one built with Fox Blocks, provides many of the essential features that today’s homeowner is looking for: excellent indoor environmental quality (IEQ), energy-efficiency, and disaster-resistance.
The Advantages of ICF over CMU Construction
Concrete masonry units (CMU) and insulated concrete form (ICF) walls have several features in common: energy-efficiency, durability, and good indoor environmental quality (IEQ). However, ICF is quicker and easier to install compared to CMU, which saves time and money.
How to Cut the EPS Fox Buck
This video covers several different ways to cut the Fox Buck for your next insulated concrete form project.
5 Common Misconceptions About ICF Construction
ICF construction creates modern structures that are energy-efficient, durable, disaster-resistant, and have good indoor environmental quality (IEQ). ICF construction is also strong, flexible, fast and easy to install. Unfortunately, even with these many benefits, some architects and contractors are reluctant to utilize it due to misconceptions about ICF construction.
White Paper: Effects of the Thermal Envelope on Home Energy Efficiency
In this white paper, Fox Blocks explore the science behind creating a good thermal envelope with insulated concrete forms.
Have You Heard? We're Expanding ICF Production to Alaska!
Fox Blocks is expanding manufacturing and ICF production to Anchorage, Alaska, by partnering with Insulfoam Manufacturing Facility.
How to Design a Structure that Minimizes Virus Transmission in the Workplace
How to Define Comfort in a Home
We all want a comfortable home where we can release the stresses of the day. Fox Blocks presents seven tips to help you optimize the comfort of your home.
Infographic: The Anatomy of a High-Performance, Healthy Commercial Building
Learn about the passive strategies, innovative technologies, and system integrations that create a modern, high-performance, healthy commercial building in this infographic.
What is a HERS Index Score and How to Achieve a Good HER Rating
Home energy efficiency is crucial in today’s environmentally conscious and economically driven world.