Have Fast Can You Unload a Truck?
September 22nd, 2009 | From the Field | 5 in 1, michigan, speed of construction, unloading a truck, Video
Unloading your building in 20 minutes.
We recently visited a jobsite last week in Michigan and was able to catch on video the ICF install crew, of ICF Building Solutions, accepting a truckload of Reward ICFs on the jobsite. We thought it would be interesting to share to help conceptualize with people who have never worked with our ICF, how lightweight they are. It surprises some people because of the strength and all of the benefits of ICFs, they expect something that must weigh a ton.
That was the old way to build. This is the smarter way, the sustainable way. Why risk injury lifting CMU or spending more money bringing in extra unloading equipment? There’s no more need struggling to carry large pieces of lumber in order to erect the walls.
Reward’s insulating concrete forms weigh approximately 5.5 pounds a piece. That’s about as much as a full grown Chihuahua. So when the crew is unloading and stacking, it’s like lifting chihuahuas all day long, only without the barking and biting of the ankles! The square footage of one of our forms is equal to 6 CMU blocks, so really that’s 5.5 pounds versus 120 pounds for the same amount of wall area.
Are you starting to see some efficiencies of ICFs?
So here is the video we took. The ICF install crew unloaded 50 cubes of our 17″ iForm, enough for 3,000 square feet of wall. Each cube weighs around 60 pounds. To put that in perspective you would need over 3,400 CMU blocks weighing in at over 20 pounds a piece, to put up that same amount of wall. All this was done in 20 minutes as well.
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Awesome article as usual, thanks for posting such helpful stuff on a regular basis.