Why live in a concrete house
The many benefits of living in a house made of concrete. (Photo Credits)
Living in a concrete home is almost a given nowadays, and this norm has gotten a lot of property owners to forget why concrete is the foremost choice of material for most home builders and their respective contractors.
There are many benefits of living in a concrete home. The Concrete Network enumerated this in one of the articles it published. It highlighted concrete’s energy efficiency versus other materials used to build structures. National Ready Mix Concrete Association
“Homes built with ICF walls require about 44% less energy to heat and 32% less energy to cool than a comparable wood-frame house, based on a study of 58 single-family homes located throughout the U.S. and Canada. Half had exterior concrete walls constructed using ICFs and the other half were comparable neighboring houses with wood-frame walls. All the houses were less than 6 years old. The energy savings come from the outstanding insulating values for ICF walls (as high as R-40, compared to wood frame’s R-9 to R-15 values) and tighter construction.” Read about the other advantages they listed down here.
Strength and Durability of Concrete
Home and Garden Television meantime explained how durable concrete homes can be.
“Strength. Able to withstand 250-mile-an-hour winds and wind-borne debris, the storm resistance of concrete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete homes is the No. 1 drawing card for people in hurricane and tornado zones, says Dave Pfanmiller of Security Building Corporation, an RCF home builder in North Carolina.” It added as well the durability factor of concrete homes. “Concrete does not harbor the insects and rot that can cause frame houses to deteriorate, Pfanmiller says. Concrete houses have a building life expectancy of centuries.”
Check out the rest of the article here.
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The World Business Council For Sustainability Development meantime highlighted the fact that Concrete is a sustainable material to use when building a home or a structure.
“It is vitally important to develop products and systems that can be used to construct more durable, energy-efficient eco-buildings, and concrete can be used to do just this. Concrete, with its strength, durability and excellent thermal mass, should be a key component in eco-buildings of today and the future. In May 2008, The Guardian in the United Kingdom featured the first zero-carbon house developed by a volume housebuilder, in which concrete plays a critical role in maintaining internal temperatures.”
Read more here.
Concrete is indeed one of the best building materials thereis.
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