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CFA Announces 2006 "Basement of the Year"
The Concrete Foundations Association’s (CFA) 2006 Basement of the Year competition salutes some of this year’s most challenging home projects and their cast-in-place concrete foundations. The 2006 winner has such a complex foundation design that the crews who worked on it named it “The Dragon House” and “The Spaceship.” More
EnergyValue Housing Award Winner
The 3,800-square-foot, 4-bedroom home is the recipient of the 2006 EnergyValue Housing Award (Gold Winner) for Hot Climate, Custom Home. This home is a demonstration project for the U.S. Department of Energy's "Building America" home building program. More
Fifth Annual "Masonry: It Makes a Village" Winners Anounced
The fifth annual design/build competition “Masonry: It Makes A Village” was held Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8, in Phoenix at Turf Paradise. This timed event pitted teams of Arizona architects and mason contractors against each other to produce the most creative and original “village” structures with the use of brick, block, natural and manufactured stone, glass block and architectural precast. More
New Jersey Home "LEED"s The Way
The demonstration home is 80 percent more energy efficient, more durable and is faster to construct than conventionally built homes. The site will host a number of seminars and tours to architects, builders, government officials, homeowners, realtors, financial institutions and other interested parties throughout the summer of 2006. More
Green Builder Advocates Have Ties to Concrete
Industry
Green building pioneer Ron Jones of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was named Builder Advocate of the Year at the 2006 National Green Building Awards Gala on Sunday, March 12, during NAHB's 8th Annual National Green Building Conference in Albuquerque. The Sustainable Building Industry Council of Washington D.C. also received an award for Group Advocate of the Year. More
ICFA Hires Technical Services Manager
The Insulating Concrete Form Association recently hired Vera Novak to become its Technical Services Manager. The newly created position will help promote the use of insulating concrete form building systems by fighting for code and standard advancements, creating publications and brochures and identifying potential uses of insulating concrete forms (ICFs). More
- Albuquerque USGBC chapter tours of the Vision House from May 20th to May 21st. For more info, please call Mandi at (505) 883-3602.
- Tile
Roofing Institute Installer Certification Program
Ontario, Calif., June 6-7, 2006 - Concrete
Technologies Tour
Phoenix, Ariz., June 11-13, 2006 - Pacific Coast
Builders Conference
San Francisco, Calif., June 20-23,2006 - Concrete
Foundations Association Summer Meeting
Wisconsin Dells, Wis., July 19-22, 2006 - National
Concrete Masonry Association
Victoria, British Columbia, July 26-30, 2006
Our next issue will feature a Habitat project in the Northwest and an award-winning
masonry home.
Concrete Homes: Built-in Safety
Reformatted from VHS to DVD, this 8-minute video documents the results of tests comparing the tornado and hurricane resistance of concrete walls to wood- and steel- frame walls. Wall panels were subjected to the impact of a 15-pound wood stud "missile" traveling at 109 miles per hour. The frame walls failed to stop the airborne hazards. The concrete walls successfully resisted the impact.
This DVD also includes the Built-in Safety Technology Brief (IS306) and Investigation of Wind Projectile Resistance of Insulating Concrete Form Homes research report (RP122), both in PDF format.
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