By Alice Lane
How do you build a wall? How do you build a wall that will be part of a home? How do you build a wall that will be a part of a major commercial building?
The average person might answer these questions by explaining how workers assemble walls of two by fours that eventually are secured together to give the room, home, or building its shape. Assembling walls at a construction site is the normal way a stick house or building is built. The walls are built one piece (one stick) at a time. Newer ways to construct walls, to construct homes are available. The use of a wall system, especially a wall system using insulated concrete forms, will decrease the amount of time needed to construct a home, and the amount of waste at a construction site will be reduced.
Insulated concrete forms (ICFs) are foam forms that are stacked on top of one another to create a wall. The foam blocks may then be reinforced with steel rebar or another type of bracing material. This wall system is used to quickly create an ICF house that others in the neighborhood will notice.
People notice a home being built with an ICF wall system because the way the ICF blocks are assembled mimics the way children assemble Legos. The typical way ICF installation takes place is the blocks are placed on top each other and "locked" together. Once the wall system reaches the desired height, the cement is poured into the middle of the foam blocks from the top of the wall.
The use of ICFs to put a wall together makes a great deal of sense. Through the use of ICF insulated concrete a contractor helps the people he or she is building for by reducing the amount of waste. There will be immediate savings in disposal cost and clean-up expenses. Plus, homeowners will likely feel better about their home if they see that the building of the home is not making a lot of trash.
Nudura is the company to look to when looking for an ICF insulated concrete wall system. They have the ability to design an ICF house to most any specifications a customer might require. Nudura's foam blocks are created using recycled materials so they have a reduced impact on the environment. We invite you to learn more about Nudura's ICF installation by visiting them today!
