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Joe Lyman is the executive director of the Insulating Concrete Form Association. The ICFA is the trade association representing the business and political interests of the insulating concrete form industry, representing more than international 450 companies through ICF promotion, codes and standards, research, partnering and education. Founded in 1994, the ICFA is located in suburban Chicago. For more information, visit www.forms.org.
A little more than 40 years ago, the concept of a foam insulating concrete form was nothing more than a thought in an enterprising inventor's head. In the early-'60s, no one would have given odds that a newly created concrete form made of slender pieces of foam held together by a metal web would succeed.