• Concrete homes are a good investment with an immediate return. The monthly savings on cooling, heating and insurance premiums exceed the extra up-front investment for the concrete walls.
• Concrete homes provide excellent protection from termites. This is especially important in southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, the “Termite Capitol of the World “This type of construction provides an impenetrable concrete “border wall” around the perimeter of your home. Termites do much more damage to homes than high winds and fire.
• Concrete houses provide healthy environments with fewer airborne allergens, molds, and toxins than most wood-frame houses. A concrete wall system limits the infiltration of outside allergens to the inside of the house. Concrete resists mold and mildew more than wood. Mold can cause headaches, severe respiratory infections, and immune system disorders. Concrete emits less volatile organic compounds (VOC) than wood. VOCs can irritate the throat, eyes, and nose. VOCs can also cause nausea, headaches, and damage to the kidney, liver, and central nervous system.
• Fire-resistant concrete walls more effectively resist damage from fire and limit the spread of flames, compared to wood and steel. During a fire, steel can melt and warp, while wood can simply burn.
• Concrete home construction provides a more durable wall system over wood and steel. Concrete walls do not rot when exposed to moisture by wind-driven rain, diffusion, or airflow. Unlike steel, concrete does not rust when exposed to moisture.
• Concrete walls resist termites.

Tilt-up, concrete construction is exactly what it sounds like. Concrete panels are built flat on the ground (or, rather, on a concrete slab on the ground) then tilted vertically to form a wall. Pre-cast concrete panels are constructed in a factory and then transported to the jobsite. It's really that simple but, of course, it ends up being much more complex as we add architectural features, windows and doors, insulation, and lifting hardware to panels that today can be very large.

The most explosive growth is in the use of insulating concrete forms, or ICF’s, for building both basement and above-grade walls. These easy-to-erect, stay-in-place forms are made of high-density plastic foam and filled with fresh concrete and steel reinforcement to create a super-insulated thermal envelope that's airtight, quiet, and highly resistant to termites, fire and strong winds. The unique Insulated Concrete Forms used by Custom Concrete Homes have a 100-pct. kill rate for termites. If a termite penetrates it, the termite will surely die.

Concrete homes look exactly like "stick built" homes. Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF's) are stacked and braced-then concrete is poured inside the forms. The ICF's have nailing strips that allow the typical interior finishes and exterior treatments such as siding, stucco, stone and brick to be applied. This allows your home to assume any architectural style, from Victorian, to Colonial to ultra-contemporary. Because of concrete's strength and moldability, you can use ICF's to create any size or style of home imaginable. The foam forms are easy to cut and shape as desired, permitting customized architectural effects difficult to achieve with wood-frame construction, such as curved walls, large openings, long ceiling spans, custom angles and cathedral ceilings.