Article: Mixing a winner: most ICF contestants changed their designs for the second round.(Mix Designs for ICFs)(insulated concrete form)(Cover Story)

Richard Szecsy describes a three-point strategy he used in the ICF Mix Design contest. First, work backwards from the answer. Second, use the best available technology. And finally, use a team approach to solve the problem.

That strategy worked. Szecsy, vice president of new product development and risk management at Lattimore Materials Co., McKinney, Texas, won the Designing the Future--Mix Designs for ICFs competition to determine the best overall concrete mix design for use in ICF (insulated concrete form) construction. THE CONCRETE PRODUCER coordinated the research effort with Aggregate Research Industries.

The second round produced some interesting ...

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