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Green Building in New England with ICF's.
August & Sterling builds energy efficient new homes, additions, special projects, and foundations with insulated concrete forms in virtually any architectural style and design. You can surface the exterior with stone, stucco, clapboard or shinges. Inside, you can easily use sheetrock or hand-plastered walls to get just the look you want.
Walls built with insulated concrete forms allow you to virtually stop uncontrolled air and vapor migration through walls. With the addition of a heat recovery fresh air system to bring in fresh air to ventilate your ultra-efficient home, you can minimize interior air pollution and reduce destructive humidity and condensation.
There is no longer any need for baseboard heating that traps heat behind your furniture. Building with insulated concrete forms, in combination with radiant floor heat embedded within polished colored concrete or rapidly renewable flooring materials, makes your living space warm and even more energy efficient.
ICF’s also substantially reduce noise pollution from outside the home and in interior rooms where traditional “stick-built” walls allow noise infiltration.
Added benefits of ICF’s include substantial added strength during weather related emergencies. Insulated concrete forms have also been used for “safe rooms” within a house, and for areas that must be passively temperature-humidity controlled, such as wine cellars and refrigerated rooms.
If you choose to incorporate air cooling technology, building with insulated concrete forms increases cooling efficiency. This includes not only living space, but also commercial space, such as flower farm holding rooms, fresh food storage, and more.
We are proud to offer new homes that earn the ENERGY STAR® label. ENERGY STAR qualified new homes are substantially more energy efficient than homes built to the minimum code requirements. These homes are better for the environment and better for you. Learn more about ENERGY STAR at EnergyStar.gov. qualified new homes.
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Insulated concrete form construction is not limited to squares and rectangles! Interesting buildings can be constructed in curves, circles, or with complex angles.
The surface of an ICF building can look like any other house, in virtually any architectural design or material.
The speed of construction saves man-hours compared to traditional “stick-built” methods of construction. Assembly of the walls is also energy efficient!
ICF's tend to produce less construction waste. ICF waste is also recyclable.
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Below grade, foundations built with ICF's can support any type of structure, such as custom natural log homes or geodesic dome structures, and can be faced with natural stone, offering a quality appearance.
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