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5 10, 2022

Amvic Building System to join the ICFMA

By |2022-10-05T10:43:01-05:00October 5, 2022|Featured, News Releases|

Ottawa, ON., September 22, 2022– The Insulating Concrete Forms Manufactures Association (ICFMA) is excited to announce the addition of a new primary member, Amvic, Inc. Amvic brings more than 25 years of experience and innovation in the Insulating Concrete Formwork industry, and a commitment to excellence by offering a versatile ICF system to build exceptionally energy-efficient, sustainable, healthy and environmentally friendly structures. “Joining the ICFMA makes sense especially as our industry works closely together to address building code changes, sustainable construction and increased efficiency needs and expanded life safety requirements., says Victor Amend, Amvic’s President and CEO, “We’re seeing even greater adoption of ICFs across multiple construction sectors and it takes a unified industry to address those needs.” Amvic is an excellent addition to the ICFMA as a long-standing manufacturer of ICFs and other related construction products. Their experience in producing products to build extremely energy-efficient, airtight, and disaster-resilient building envelopes is a great value to the industry. ICFs outperform all conventional building envelopes on the market and Amvic along with each ICFMA member company, is committed to the promotion of safe and sustainable construction using Insulating Concrete Forms. Adding another ICF advocate with years of industry knowledge and experience [...]

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14 06, 2022

ICF Construction: An Introductory Guide to ICFs for Designers and Architects

By |2022-04-20T07:59:50-05:00June 14, 2022|Design, Featured|

For architects who need to design energy-efficient structures without changing their typical design processes, insulated concrete forms (ICFs) offer the ideal combination of insulating power, design and aesthetic versatility, and ease of installation. An insulated concrete form is comprised of two layers of EPS filled with concrete and supported with rebar, and it is used for foundations and structural walls. These forms provide thick, continuously insulated walls that come with many additional benefits. ICFs help architects, designers and contractors stay on schedule, build durable, beautiful projects and meet or exceed increasingly strict energy codes for insulation. Constructing with ICFs reduces the building’s carbon footprint and saves money on energy bills and reduced maintenance and repairs when compared to traditional building methods, such as wood frame construction. According to ICF studies, ICF construction generated up to 60% energy savings and provided 58% better effective R-Value/RSI. Plus, you can build year-round with ICFs, even in below-freezing temperatures, so you never have to slow operations. With traditional wood framing, you have to constantly clear the materials, such as the subfloor and bottom wall plate locations, of any snow or ice before you can start working for the day. There’s also a constant threat of moisture [...]

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11 05, 2022

ICF vs Wood: 6 Reasons to Choose ICF

By |2022-04-20T07:42:06-05:00May 11, 2022|Design, Featured|

Over the past several years, dramatic increases in lumber costs have left the construction industry looking to other building material alternatives, such as insulated concrete forms (ICFs), in place of traditional wood-frame construction. ICFs are a building system that uses Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam blocks that stack together to act as a hollow wall with ready-mix concrete poured in between to build reinforced concrete walls. (Go back to the basics in this blog post "ICF Construction: An Introductory Guide to ICFs for Designers and Architects") This level of air-tight construction gives ICFs their reputation as an ideal alternative to traditional stick-built or wood-frame construction, but there are also many other benefits that outshine wood framing and insulation. Let’s take a look at the differences between insulated concrete forms and wood-frames to learn how ICFs offer a higher level of comfort, health, safety, energy efficiency and eco-friendly benefits. How ICFs Outperform Wood There are a growing number of business owners and journeyman carpenters who are avid supporters of using alternative building methods like ICF over wood framing. My company, Up To Kode — a full-service carpentry, contracting and consulting company — prefer ICFs to all other framing alternatives. Our team specializes in building custom [...]

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