The Next Generation ICF
Helping to build strong,
cost-effective housing.
Building a home can be a battle between the path of least resistance or holding out for quality.
Insisting on quality for your walls is a vital starting point. After all, unlike countertops and cabinets, your choice of wall construction cannot be improved later.
An E-Z Block wall is a choice for quality. It will suppress neighborhood noises, keep cool in the summer and warm in the winter, provide safety from natures disasters, and last for generations.
Quality Walls:
High insulation values with thermal mass benefit
Extreme Fire Resistance
Can be shaped to almost any curve or architectural requirement
Sound suppressing
Excellent air seal
Impervious to vermin and rot
Easy to install:
Lightweight
No mortar needed
Stucco straight to block surface
Easy to shape
No bracing needed when filling with grout
No special training required
The E-Z Block Balance
In construction, the goals of any project is to create a building that is strong, comfortable, and affordable. All too often, however, the construction method chosen requires sacrificing one or more of these goals. The links below show how E-Z Blocks not only achieve this balance, but do so better than any other product on the market.
What sets an E-Z Block apart?
It’s made from a superior material: cellular concrete.
It requires significantly less concrete to fill through smart screen-grid design.
It is manufactured in a ‘comprehensively sustainable’ process.
Cellular Concrete
Cellular Concrete (or CC) is a cement mixture combined with foam. Once cured, this creates a stable cementitious material with millions of tiny air bubbles. Low density CC is a difficult material to get right, but we have spent nearly 20 years learning and perfecting our process.
Our specialized process for low density CC creates blocks that stack quickly and easily (durable, yet lightweight), and are insulative. They also do not burn or produce smoke when exposed to flame, have excellent adherence to stucco and other coatings, and dampen sound.
Screen Grid Design
Screen grid design represents the ideal trade-off between the strength of a wall and the materials/cost needed to build it. Unlike a flat wall design, screen grid walls place concrete in a more strategic configuration; thus, they use less concrete without major sacrifices in strength.
A good illustration of this concept is the I-Beam. Long ago, we learned that if you carve away certain sections of a steel beam, you would end up with a structural member nearly as strong, while only using a fraction of the steel.
In the same way, E-Z Blocks use concrete in the most efficient way possible. E-Z Blocks only require 1/3 cubic ft. for every square ft. of wall. Put another way, E-Z Blocks use only 66% of the concrete needed for a 6” flat wall, and only 44% of the concrete for an 8” flat wall.
Manufacturing Plant
Our plant is designed and run in alignment with our vision of comprehensive sustainability. It is a low-impact, small footprint facility. It has modest power needs, creates no waste, and recycles its used water. It can be replicated at relatively low cost and deployed to a wide variety of locations, from the center of a market hub to minimize shipping, to an on-site building project, to rugged locations in developing countries.
The bottom line is that E-Z Blocks are made in a responsible way, and as E-Z Block Systems expands we do so in a responsible manner.
