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Design and install insulating concrete forms with ease! Insulating Concrete Forms for Residential Design and Construction by Pieter A. VanderWerf helps you create stay-in-place ICFs faster and more efficiently. This fact-packed volume gives you step-by-step, "hands-on" design and construction guidance you need to offer your clients a home with greater energy efficiency, design flexibility, strength and durability. Now for the first time ever in a single time-saving source! Fingertip data on designing and installing insulating concrete forms for any residential application; Critical HAVAC design procedures for achieving maximum energy efficiency; Expert tips on drawing up razor-sharp cost estimates; Best practices for assembling and finishing wall structures; Step-by-step procedures for connecting structural members and installing electrical and plumbing lines, sidings, fixtures and trim; And much, much more.

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Insulated concrete forming systems (ICFs) provide many benefits to both contractors and homeowners. Hidden from view under sheetrock and siding, ICFs offer low labor costs; are easy to install; and are durable, energy-efficient, fire-safe, and virtually soundproof. Homes built with these systems look like any other, but under the standard covering lie solid, built-to-last concrete walls. Endorsed by the Portland Cement Association, this concise handbook gives contractors the hands-on information they need to use ICFs in the field. Authors Peter A. VanderWerf and W. Keith Munsell describe how these systems work, how to train crews to install them cost-effectively, and where to order product.

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Your one-source guide to Concrete-Based Homebuilding Systems. Residential contractors, architects, and developers will welcome this first total guide to the latest concrete-based homebuilding systems (CBHSs). With lumber costs still on the rise after doubling the early '90s, The Portland Cement Association Guide to Concrete Homes, by Peter VanderWerf and W. Keith Munsel, can deliver, durable, cost-efficient, esthetically pleasing alternative building materials and construction methods. It's all spelled out in an authoritative sourcebook that explains and compares the various types of CBHSs and lists special materials and tools for building them-provides case histories of concrete homes already built and in use-and contains data vital to building professionals who want to learn tomorrow's techniques today.