March 3, 2010
CFA Announces Projects of the Year Winning Entries
Mount Vernon, Iowa— The Concrete Foundations Association (CFA) has announced the winners of their Projects of the Year competition for 2010. Formerly recognized by the Association in a single project known as the “Basement from Hell”, the Projects of the Year are more in tune with the breadth of cast-in-place concrete solutions produced by association members.
Displayed during the World of Concrete in Las Vegas, Nevada this past January and voted on by industry interests online at the Association’s website, projects were selected by the industry at large based on popularity and the established criteria. Projects were submitted in the categories of Single Family Residence less than 2,000 square feet, between 2,000 and 5,000 square feet and greater than 5,000 square feet; Commercial/Multi-Family; Non-wall Structural Element and Above-Grade Concrete Home. Projects were entered to the competition from California to South Carolina and represent some of the top projects ever recorded to the CFA.
Morrocroft Farms House
This house had the works
Originally designed as a 3˝ level CMU foundation, the entire house was changed to poured-in-place with 24” thick walls to carry an authentic stone boulder veneer 2˝ stories to the attic, curved roof ledges, custom window and door openings, freestanding columns to carry masonry fireplaces at three levels, bay windows and multiple floor elevations required intricate planning and forming.
The working drawings were always shown as CMU; we had to plan several phases ahead of ourselves for the framer and other trades’ installation, accounting for cast-in-place and free standing steel beams and columns, and internal wall and conduit pipe systems.
The private community limited the work day hours and construction noise. The site was cleared in sections with major trees limiting equipment and material; at the same time, the size of the walls required placing concrete in slow lifts timed exactly to eliminate cold joints. Major shoring and bracing was planned to eliminate blow-outs. In addition to the main house, a Pool Pavilion and Detached Garage also included above-ground poured walls.
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