Insulated Concrete Form Pitched Roof

Insulated concrete forms for floors and roofs quad deck uses unique technology to create an energy efficient and quality insulating concrete floor and roof system.

Insulated concrete form pitched roof.

Walls built with icfs insulated concrete forms have gained much popularity over the last couple of years for exactly these reasons. But just because a home has a concrete roof doesn t mean that it has to be flat. The two homes with longer spans required 10 lite deck system the two shorter spans used 6 lite deck. Just like icf walls the combination of foam and concrete in the roof protects interior spaces from outside temperature fluctuations.

I too have been researching the application of a pitched roof over icf construction and frankly i am disappointed that the icf mfg folks haven t developed add ons for the icf truss joists systems that would allow for and exterior bracket and plates to be added to that outside as concrete is poored from the eaves to the ridge line and prevents spillage at say a 8 12 or 12 12 pitch. Insulated concrete forms for floors roofs and elevated buildings. Now the same technology can be used for insulated concrete floors both suspended and slab on grade fpsf and pitched roofs or insulated flat roofs with a green roof system to compliment them. Please refer to the quad deck product information for details.

Quad deck makes it easy solid energy efficient comfortable. Three of the homes featured a gable roof design one a hip design. Near airports these icf roofs have proven to dramatically reduce sound infiltration. With a wood or metal deck roof system the concrete cap is supported by a bar joist or other metal formed structure and the concrete can be either integral with the supports as with hambro or not as with the trade ready floor system from clarkdietrich or deck span.

Each home was designed and constructed using an icf wall system and lite deck icf roof system. One advantage of an icf roof is that the insulation for the roof is already in place and protected on the inside of the roof.