Walls & Ceilings Architect/January 2008

ICFs Convert ICFs worked well in the rolling terrain on the grounds of the 10-building apartment complex. 15-inch wall cutting it in half. “This wall gives us double what the fire requirements are,” Colasuonno said. “They wanted a two-hour rating and this is a four-hour rating.” The exterior of the various buildings may vary, Colasuonno said, but plans at this point call for the fronts to have a cultured stone facade while the sides will be vinyl, possibly with some stone. ed to work just with the ICFs. Reilly said he’s been amazed at how smoothly things have been going. “They have turned this into an assembly line that is kind of neat ings have roofs, the third is ready for roof trusses. Now, it’s clear sailing.” Colasuonno said things have gone so well that, “a local developer came and asked us to do 54 units down- A ROUGH START Construction began in August, after Colasuonno and three of his leads took a day of training from the manufacturer. Even so, the project got off to what Colasuonno called a “rough start.” “We were kind of taken aback by how long it was taking us. It took us three solid weeks to do the ﬁ rst foundation,” Colasuonno explained. “There were several ‘blowouts,’” when the foam walls of the system breaks from the pressure of the poured concrete. But soon, they got the hang of it, and a crew of four men was delegat- “They have turned this into an assembly line that is kind of neat to watch.” — Tom Reilly to watch. In the ﬁ rst building they made some mistakes, but you can see they are getting faster and better with each building. Down the line you can see how it gets better and better.” Colasuonno couldn’t have been happier: “We started about two and a half months ago and now we’re placing footings for the seventh foundation. The ﬁ rst and second buildtown for him. He heard about us, came over and is personally trying to purchase the property. We haven’t worked out the details, but he deﬁnitely wants to go with ICFs. He had just inked an agreement that very week to build two other townhouse buildings, each 57,000square-feet, in Franklin, N.J. W&C Jay McNally is editor of Walls & Ceilings. 26 | Walls & Ceilings Architect | January 2008

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