Placing Concrete In Basement Walls For New ICF House In Southeastern Michigan -- ANAND Enterprises Project EneE1J1201

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In http://energyefficientbuild.blogspot.com/2012/05/footings-for-new-icf-house-in.html I talked about the footings for this new ICF house in Southeastern Michigan.  Now let me share with you some pictures of the concrete placement in the basement walls that I took during my field visit to the project site this morning.

Footings For New ICF House In Southeastern Michigan -- ANAND Enterprises Project EneE1J1201

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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.

As you can see we have already got the ICF blocks and the rebars for the basement walls, and the open web steel joists, and joist girders for the floor system ... I will keep you posted with the progress on this house as we move along.

Tornados Hit Ann Arbor Michigan Area -- Mar-15-2012

Tornados Hit Ann Arbor Michigan Area 

Mar-15-2012

I had gone for a Field Visit to Grass Lake Area the afternoon of  March 15th and on my way back I was passing through Scio Township area around 3:15 PM

This is about the earliest in the season that a tornado has hit this area-- there has been extensive damage to some houses especially in Dexter Township -- thankfully there is no news of personal injury. In the following I present some pictures from the web that really saddens me to see extensive damage to some houses.

Placing Concrete In Second Floor Walls -- ANAND Enterprises Project RedW1J1102

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here are the pictures that I took on this hazy February day in Michigan

Placing Concrete In First Floor Walls -- ANAND Enterprises Project RedW1J1102

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Here are the pictures I took on this nice sunny but chilly day