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	<description>Keeping you up to date on green building trends and Insulated Concrete Forms</description>
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		<title>World of Concrete recap- Reward ICFs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World of Concrete 2012 Another World of Concrete has finished up last week. One of the years biggest shows and the show where every ICF brand out there comes too, well the ones with money anyways. Nothing out of the ordinary this year, its a great time to catch up with some of our customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year in Review: Top 5 ICF Blog Posts of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 wraps up, and we are all thinking of how fast this last year has gone, I wanted to recap the top 5 blog posts of 2011. These blog posts had the most views and click through and have proven to be the most popular throughout the year. Our search tool above has proven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rewardwalls.com/year-in-review-top-5-icf-blog-posts-of-2011/</link>
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		<title>Hopeful Government Policy Changes Benefiting ICFs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Country is about as inept as passing legislation through, whether you agree with it or not, as we have ever been in our history. So am I wrong to read these positive bipartisan (whoa, whats that?) legislative bills that have recently been introduced and have a feeling they will just wither away as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rewardwalls.com/hopeful-government-policy-changes-benefiting-icfs/</link>
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		<title>Official Building Product of Zombie Safe Houses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reward ICFs have become the building material of choice for families wishing to protect themselves from zombie attacks You see Zombies everywhere- on TV, in magazines, in the news, online, walking the streets and in your home. It time to stand up and protect yourself from the imminent attack this season by fortifying your home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rewardwalls.com/official-building-product-of-zombie-safe-houses/</link>
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		<title>New 2012 IECC Code Requirements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 IECC is set to go into effect next year and there are some much improved code requirements. By improved I done mean easier and cheaper, but I mean better for the concept of energy efficiency, which in turn is better for Reward and the entire ICF Industry. Below are the most notable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insulated Concrete Form Townhouses Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to this project profile of Devoted Builders and their Mediterranean town homes in Washington. Last time we spoke of the products that were used in constructing the ICF homes and also gave a quick ICF project scope and summary. Cost and Savings Using Insulated Concrete Forms There were many upgrades given to these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rewardwalls.com/insulatedconcreteformvillasiii/</link>
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		<title>Getting Educated on ICF Building Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICF Training Hosted at Reward Wall Systems Headquarters A few months ago we met a group of architects and designers that attended our Green Building Enclosure Design Conference in Minnesota, and since then asked us to host the Iowa Chapter American Institute of Building Design monthly education seminar. So we set up shop upstairs in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rewardwalls.com/get-educated-icfbuildingscience/</link>
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		<title>Insulated Concrete Form Townhouses Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time, I introduced you  to Devoted Builders who has been building ENERGY STAR homes now for 5+ years. He has already built the majority of the ICF units, and is currently finishing up the last 30% of the 230 ICF homes. Each home is equipped with high-tech and high-quality materials- from the ICF walls, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rewardwalls.com/insulatedconcretevillas2/</link>
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		<title>Insulating Concrete Form Town Homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Northwest Insulating Concrete Form Builder Devoted Builders’ Fred Giacci, has been a long time customer of Reward Wall Systems and is a very experienced builder when it comes to building sustainable homes. He was the first builder in his area to start using insulating concrete forms in 2002, and since 2006 he made the commitment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rewardwalls.com/icftownhomevillas/</link>
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		<title>Technical Bulletin: Attaching Adhered Stone Veneer to ICFs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attaching Manufactured Adhered Concrete Masonry Stone Veneer A metal lath is fastened directly to the Reward formwork to hold the stone to the wall and withstand the dead weight.  The lath is fastened to plastic furring strips that are located every 6 inches on center.  The 1 ¼” wide furring strips are embedded into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rewardwalls.com/stoneveneer/</link>
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