Sustainability: Making Connections

Good Bones Build Strong Bodies. Long before the dairy industry began selling us on the idea that our health could be improved by strengthening our bones with milk, archaeologists were telling us the history of our ancestry from the most durable remains of life on earth - bones.

And so it is with the bones of a building - the structure. The Egyptians illuminated us on the value of stone structures, leaving a lasting legacy of their civilization. The Romans showed us the value of liquefying stone, in the form of concrete, shaping structures that housed their lives, and building them to last for centuries beyond foreseeable generations.

The concept of sustainability relies heavily on the ability of the structures we build to last long enough to repay the cost of building them, and provide for their replacement with the resources saved or accumulated during their lifetime. The recyclability of the materials themselves is included in meeting this objective. Sustainability and durability are thus, inextricably linked. Concrete has demonstrated the ability to provide a superior and durable framework for buildings for millennia. But since humanity began expending far more energy for the heating, cooling, and operation of the built environment than on the initial cost of construction, this enduring framework must be wrapped in the most durable and responsible form of modern insulation available – expanded polystyrene – to ensure that concrete’s thermal performance matches its structural integrity in achieving true sustainability. This is the elegance of Insulating Concrete Forms.

Beyond the structure, everything else is consumable, subject to the whims of culture, style and fashion – all the more reason that the "flesh and clothing" of a building also consist of sustainable materials and systems. For our part, we have chosen to provide the best building material available for the exterior walls of any residential or commercial building because we want to provide you with a durable and sustainable framework that allows you to dress for fashion and build for life.