Resist Natural Disasters
Built-in Resiliency
Protect the future of your home with built-in weather resiliency including protection from wind, fire, earthquakes, and damaging moisture build-up. Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and fires threaten our safety and our prized possessions. And they seem to be on the rise, both in frequency and intensity. At the same time, families continue to be drawn to the beautiful coastal areas (and the many other locations) that are prone to these dangerous climatic events.
A stick frame house wouldn’t have had a chance at stopping this.
Strong and safe ICF homes are not expensive. But when severe climactic events threaten, they’re priceless.
First, the highly insulated concrete-and-steel ICF building envelope will protect and provide comfort and peace of mind to your family during the threatening event itself.
Then, in the days and weeks afterwards while your community’s utilities and infrastructure are being repaired and your air conditioning or heating is left unpowered, the air-tight and highly insulated ICF envelope will continue to surround your family in an ambience of relative comfort, with moderate temperatures and humidity levels.
A Tale of Two Homes – The house on the left was levelled by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The home standing on the right was built with Logix ICF.
And as well, ICF is also a great option if you wish to build a separate safe room either outside of the home or inside an ICF, or wood-frame, home.
Element ICF is the perfect start toward building a cost-effective and highly disaster-resilient home or building. And here’s how you can optimize the power of Element ICF to provide maximum protection, peace of mind and comfort for the specific climactic event(s) that are of particular concern to you.
