ICF Builder – R & M Smith Contracting Featured – November/December 2014
Small Residential Winner – Burnham Project
Located in Otonobee Township, near Peterborough, Ontario about 50 miles east of Toronto, this home shows that ICFs are just as well-suited for smaller spec homes as they are for large custom residences.
This residence was built by Randy Smith of R&M Smith Contracting, who was voted “Green Builder of the Year” in 2012 by the local home building association. The lot has a significant slope—about 14 vertical feet from the front of the house to the rear—so one of the first steps was building up a foundation wall to level the building footprint. Smith reports it took 75 loads of gravel, compacted in lifts over two days, to reach a level basement floor.