Walls start to go up

The ICF for the basement walls were delivered and started to be assembled on 9-20-14.  A huge delivery was dropped on next to the street.  Luckily it's just foam, so transporting it back the 250 feet to the house site was pretty easy.

The footings were spiked but I didn't get to see it happen.  Here you can see about six courses of Integraspec block, each course being 12" in height.  There's a plastic channel on one side of that block that receives a plastic webbing.  This webbing acts as a spacer and holder for the horizontal rebar that gets placed every course.  There's also vertical rebar tied in, so the wall is a rebar mesh surrounded by concrete sandwiched between foam.  Pretty secure.

 This wall is the where the garage will come off of.  The wall the the left is the front of the house.

 Here you can see one of the basement walk outs.  It's flanked by two window openings and looks out onto the water.

 You can see the plastic webbing that holds the two sides of foam together.  The channel that accepts these spacers is also used as drywall "nailers"  The company logo is placed where the channels are so that when you're hanging the interior drywall, you can attach it directly to the ICF by screwing in at the logo.

 Here you can see the two basement walkouts in the back ground.  The foreground wall geometry is such because on the level above, this will be the front entrance.  You can see how they spike the footings.