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For information about residential concrete construction in Utah, call:

Lee Atkin
Mountain Cement Company
615 West 800 S.
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
Phone: (801) 328-4891 / Fax: (801) 328-4904

Brenda Lee Durbin
Iron County Homebuilders Association
76 E. Center St.
Cedar City, UT 84720
Phone: (435) 865-1113 / Fax: (435) 867-0445
Web: www.ironcohba.com
E-mail: brendalee@blackburnandassociates.com

You can also contact the Utah Masonry Council at www.utahmasonrycouncil.org.

Cedar City

There has been explosive growth in the number of homes built with insulating concrete forms in Southern Utah. Today, homebuyers expect to get more from their new home. They want beauty that’s more than skin deep. They want a home with solid, high quality construction, greater comfort and security, lower maintenance and energy bills. A home that’s healthier to live in and easier on the environment. More and more builders and homebuyers are tuning to something new. A modern adaptation of a centuries old technology using the most proven building material on earth: concrete.

Insulating Concrete Forms (ICFs) give you all the benefits that have made concrete the material of choice for home building worldwide: Solid, lasting construction that resists the ravages of fire, wind and Father Time. But ICFs do plain concrete one better – or rather, two better – by giving you two built-in layers of foam insulation.

This gives an ICF home some sizable advantages over an ordinary stick-built home. Greater energy efficiency. More peace and quiet. More sheer day-to-day living comfort. All wrapped up in a solid, high-quality building package that gives an ICF home an utterly remarkable feel that really has to be experienced to be believed. As soon as you step inside, you can tell that an ICF home is not an ordinary house. It’s not just beautiful, comfortable and quiet. You can feel that it’s solid and built to last.

The 2000 Cedar City Area Parade of Homes featured 15 newly constructed homes (2 of which are concrete). For further information on the concrete homes in the Parade of Homes or ICF seminars, contact Brenda Lee Durbin, President of the Iron County Home Builders Association 2000 at (435) 586-8522.

St. George

Located across from St. George's Sun Bowl, the first home built with Quad-Lock ICFs in southern Utah received a Energy Star rating of 92.3 on the Home Energy Rating Scale, earning it the highest honor by the EPA's Energy Star Program: 5 Stars Plus.

Located on a major intersection, hundreds of passersby notice the beautifully landscaped yard and attractive home each day. The homeowner shared, "My home is so quiet, especially being on the corner of a major intersection. I just love it!"

Few people would know that the owner can hardly hear them. Her ICF home provides her with a quiet, comfortable home that literally saves her hundreds of dollars each year in power bills.

For more information, please Steve Vaughan of HiCaliber Inc. at (435) 674-9338.

Springdale

Developer Allan Staker is constructing a development of 15 luxury insulating concrete form (ICF) homes in Springdale, directly in the shadow of the majestic beauty of Zion National Park. The homes are designed to blend into the surrounding landscape, and as a result, Staker has incorporated a number of interesting features into the homes. Local stone masons bring slabs of stone to the development site and chisel them into precise shapes to form decorative exterior walls for the homes. To further ensure that the homes mingle with the Zion Canyon environment, the colors for the stucco and tile roofs were custom blended to match the color of nearby rock outcroppings and the mountains on the horizon. Yet another innovative technique is a geo-exchange heating and cooling system, which, together with the ICF walls, will dramatically lower utility bills for the occupants and maintain a more consistent interior temperature. Homes in Gifford Park range size from 1,400 to 3,500 square feet.

Contact:
Alann Staker of Gifford Park Luxury Homes at (303) 794-5913 or
Don Clem of the Rocky Mountain Cement Council at (303) 404-0151.

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