In 1994, Mike Hancock gave up his job as a project manager with a nuclear power plant to put his engineering background to use in the residential building industry. He moved to Oklahoma where he ...

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World of Concrete 2014 hosted a forum on concrete home construction that underscored rising cost of property loss resulting from natural disasters, suggesting it is the result of softened building ...

Insulating concrete forms have a long history of success in low-rise buildings, but now Building Teams are specifying ICFs for mid- and high-rise structures—more than 100 feet. ICF walls can be used ...

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Because there are so few builders building with ICFs, customers who want them often have to pay a premium. ICF homes tend to cost 5-20 percent more than their wood-framed counterparts, industry ...

GREENLAND, N.H., Aug. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Slated for a fall 2024 opening, 21 Summer Street in Natick, Massachusetts is a multi-use property redevelopment that meets the parameters of the ...

GREENLAND, N.H., Sept. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts Stretch Energy Code update, which took effect on July 1, 2024, introduced significant changes to improve energy efficiency in ...

They have their virtues, but concrete and petrochemical sandwiches shouldn't be on the green building menu. Insulated Concrete Forms are a clever building system where two slabs of insulating foam are ...

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