Giant Development with a Gentle Footprint

Alys Beach, a 599-home traditional neighborhood development, is located on 158 acres of Florida panhandle. It’s in the first phase of an 8–10 year buildout. When completed, concrete masonry homes, adorned with white stucco and concrete roof tile, will surround a 177,000 square foot community center housing a newsstand, shops, fitness club, euro-style market, and restaurants. More

The New American Home Update

The New American Home, the official Show Home of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is ready to be unveiled at the 2005 International Builders’ Show in Orlando. The Portland Cement Association (PCA) and the Florida Concrete and Products Association (FCPA) played a major role in this year’s home by coordinating concrete product donations and providing technical expertise. More

The fourth annual Residential Design Symposium, sponsored by the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA) and the Portland Cement Association (PCA) is scheduled for January 12, 2005, one day in advance of the opening of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) International Builders Show (IBS) in Orlando, Florida. More

Cement-based Products Featured in Multiple Show Homes

The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) will display twin two-story townhouses in Reed Construction's Show Village at the International Builders’ Show in Orlando on Jan. 13-16. Each townhouse, one finished and one unfinished, is 1,628 square-feet.

The finished townhouse will feature fiber cement siding for exterior cladding.

Sarah Susanka's Not So Big Showhouse 2005 will be open for tours during IBS, January 13 - 16, 2005. Free shuttles to the Showhouse will be available from the South Building at the Orange County Convention Center.

ICFs, courtesy of Amvic, and fiber cement siding, courtesy of James Hardie, are used in this sustainable Showhouse. More

Concrete Industry Exhibits in the Concrete Pavilion

In the West Hall of the Orange County Convention Center, 38 companies featuring cement-based products and/or accessories will firmly establish the industry's presence at the International Builders' Show.

At 11,650 sq. ft., this is the largest Concrete Pavilion in the history of the International Builders’ Show. The 17th annual Pavilion has many familiar faces, as well as eight new organizations, representing removable forms, masonry products, ICFs, AAC, retaining walls, exterior veneers, post-tensioning, decorative flatwork products, and accessories for making your next home even easier to build. More

Florida Housing Authority Approves VBuck Block-Out System with ICFs

The Florida Building Authority has approved the application submitted by Vinyl Technologies Inc. for statewide use of the VBuck vinyl door and window block-out system in homes built with insulating concrete forms (ICFs). More

Concrete Homes Consumer Brochure

This eight-page, four-color brochure describes the durability, energy efficiency, sound reduction, and disaster-resistant benefits that can be obtained from the use of residential concrete products. Sold in packs of 50.
PL999—$20