Florida Developers in Fine Form

Two Florida builders are utilizing removable forms to provide homebuyers with safe, durable, affordable concrete homes. More

Precast Fortified Homes Spring Up Fast

Royal Concrete Concepts is the first manufacturer to provide single-family concrete modular homes that will earn the Fortified...for safer living® designation from the Institute for Business & Homes Safety (IBHS).

At a recent groundbreaking ceremony in Aurora, Illinois, builders erected “Fortified” walls on a new home made of precast concrete using Dukane Precast’s double-wall system. More

Volunteers from Delta Air Lines are joining rock icon and philanthropist Jon Bon Jovi, Habitat for Humanity, and members of the Arena Football League (AFL) team, the Philadelphia Soul, to complete Habitat for Humanity, New York City’s Halsey Street project in Bedford-Stuyvesant. More

Connecticut Convention Center Briefly Houses Concrete Home

The Connecticut Concrete Promotion Council (CCPC), Hartford Area Home Builders Association, and ICF distributor Polysteel Northeast recently teamed up to construct and display an ICF show home inside the Connecticut Convention Center during this spring’s Home Show in Hartford. More

ICF Builder Awards Announced

The winners of the 2006 ICF Builder Awards have been announced. Sponsored by Cosella Dorken and ICF Builder magazine, the awards are given annually to projects that demonstrate outstanding innovation, quality and craftsmanship in insulating concrete form construction. More

Thompson Rejoins PCA as Residential Technology Manager

Portland Cement Association (PCA) named Donn C. Thompson, AIA, LEED AP, as residential technology promotion manager. He will oversee the residential technical program and work to enhance cement-based products as a sustainable development solution for home building. More

ICFA Announces Tagline Contest

In a move to better communicate its message to the ICF industry and public-at-large, the Insulating Concrete Form Association’s Promotion Committee has announced a contest to develop a phrase that will become ICFA's official tagline. More

D-I-Y Promotion Zone

PCA announces the debut of a unique web-based advertising and marketing tool for residential concrete promoters—local and national trade groups, material suppliers, builders, and contractors.

Users can customize a library of templates to create print ads, brochures, event postcards, and e-mail blasts for use in promoting residential concrete products to both consumer and non-consumer audiences. Choose from a library of photos on the site, or upload your own images and logos for the promotional pieces.

There is no fee to register and begin using this dynamic new service. All fees are charged on a pay-as-you-go, project-by-project basis.

D-I-Y Promotion Zone