What size and how much steel reinforcement is required in an ICF?

Fox Blocks walls are designed as rein­forced con­crete walls, with steel rein­force­ment bars spec­i­fied to be installed ver­ti­cal­ly and hor­i­zon­tal­ly, as the walls are built. Typ­i­cal rein­force­ment bar sizes used are #4 or #5 (10 m or 15 m).

2016 CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER finished 2 sign
CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER
The build­ing fea­tures an impres­sive mix of tall wall ICF, steel, and glaz­ing.
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PHNX1/PALOS RESIDENCE
First Type II Non-Com­bustible, Net-Zero Home in the U.S. This home was designed, built and com­plet­ed in less than 21 months with the same cost as a tra­di­tion­al build.
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MESKWAKI TRAVEL PLAZA
The Meskwa­ki Trav­el Plazais a full-ser­vice trav­el cen­ter includes a truck­ers’ lounge, con­ve­nience store, and 50’s themed din­er.
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PARKER WOODS MONTESSORI SCHOOL
A key design ele­ment of this school was sus­tain­abil­i­ty.
The Benefits of Building Multi story Residential Buildings with ICF Blocks 1
The Benefits of Building Multi-story Residential Buildings with ICF Blocks
How to Turn a Corner with a Corbel Ledge Block
In this video, Fox Blocks’ Glen Klassen shows how to make a mitered cor­ner with the Cor­bel Ledge Block.
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THE PRESERVE AT MOUNTAIN VISTA
A series of homes were built togeth­er to prove the via­bil­i­ty of ICF con­tribut­ing to afford­able, Net Zero homes.
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ARTURO FUENTE CIGAR WAREHOUSE
Locat­ed in the his­toric Ybor City his­tor­i­cal dis­trict of Tam­pa, the Arturo Fuente Cig­ar Ware­house is a 15,000 square foot humi­dor.”
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KING GEORGE LANTERN HALL
Lantern Hall won the Com­mon­wealth Award from the Vir­ginia Chap­ter of the Amer­i­can Con­crete Insti­tute.