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This Energy Efficient House has IntegraSpec Insulating Concrete Form (ICF) walls -- we have designed the floors to be supported on open web steel joists and joist girders ... so the entire basement would be practically column free, the walls footings use Form-A-Drain to serve as form work for concrete footings, drain tiles, and for trapping redon gas; the few columns we do have in the stair walls will be on isolated footings; the back side of the house is a walkout where I designed the footings to be Frost Protected Shallow Foundation to avoid unnecessary expense of deeper excavation and larger amount of concrete. I had taken some pictures when I was out in the field ... so let me have the pictures do the talking.
This Energy Efficient House has IntegraSpec Insulating Concrete Form (ICF) walls -- we have designed the floors to be supported on open web steel joists and joist girders ... so the entire basement would be practically column free, the walls footings use Form-A-Drain to serve as form work for concrete footings, drain tiles, and for trapping redon gas; the few columns we do have in the stair walls will be on isolated footings; the back side of the house is a walkout where I designed the footings to be Frost Protected Shallow Foundation to avoid unnecessary expense of deeper excavation and larger amount of concrete. I had taken some pictures when I was out in the field ... so let me have the pictures do the talking.
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