Is Concrete Green?

Concrete is Green for the following reasons:

1. Long service Life.

2. Plant-controled Production maximizes the use of recycled
   materials such as fly ash, slag, silica fume, crushed concrete.

3. Most of the ingredients are inert and require less energy to produce than wood and steel products.

4. The inherent thermal mass of the concrete can be incorporated into building system to conserve energy.

5. Continuous material, conceals the building with no leaks.

6. Save up to 60% on utilities bills with the use of insulated form.

 

Why build with Insulated Concrete Form, ICF ?

ICF will provide up to 50% heating cost savings.
If you save $50/month, at 8% interest rate, How much do you think you will accumulate in 30 years? You will save $75,000!!

Fire Resistance:
Non-combustible self extinguishing materials.
Concrete will not burn,

Non-compsitable
Can sustain flooding with no structural or mold damage.

ICF has a high mass substrate and is not susceptible to:

• Dry rot

• Termites

• Mold; Solve the mold problem before it starts by
  building with ICF.

Wind Resistance
Walls can be reinforced to a much higher degree as required to meet local wind speed and earthquake zone classifications –

• Designed to withstand winds up to 250mph

• ICFs provide greater impact resistance than wood frame or even concrete block

• Wall design principle is a monolithic structural concrete wall. (Up to 9x stronger than a wood framed wall.)

• ICFs deliver superior performance to wood or steel framed walls in terms of – structural, thermal, air/moisture barrier, and acoustic capabilities

• Solid concrete provides substantially better defense against all natural elements including hurricane, tornado, fire, flood, etc. Resulting structure exceeds all code requirements for tornado and hurricane prone areas.

• Resulting structure exceeds all code requirements for tornado and hurricane prone areas

Saves on Construction Costs

• Less sub trades to coordinate

The same sub-trades are used for:

• Foundations

• Walls

• Interior / exterior strapping

• Insulation

• Vapor / air barriers
  

 

Why choose Nudura

Please visit: www.nudura.com

• Home owners/what is Nudura ICF

• Home owners/ Why choose Nudura ICF

• Home owners/ Nudura benefits.

• Home owners/ Frequent Asked questions
  

 

Fast and Easy Construction

• ICF is excellent for a strong and warm basement or daylight basement

• You can pour concrete at colder temperatures

• Excellent for curved walls