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Do It Yourself Home Builder Shares Benefits of Thermal Mass

As you read about the advantages of building a home with Faswall green building blocks, you’ll notice we give a lot of attention to the product’s superior thermal mass. What is thermal mass? And why...

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Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Chooses Faswall

We’re honored that the nuns at Sravasti Abbey, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Newport, Washington, chose to construct their newest building with Faswall green building blocks. Chenrezig Hall provides...

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Faswall Featured in Wine Business Monthly

Faswall green building blocks were featured in the March issue of Wine Business Monthly, a trade magazine that serves wineries and others in the U.S. wine industry. Read the article by clicking this...

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Let Faswall Be Your Foundation For a Green Home

Note the exposed Faswall green building blocks visible in the foundation. Photo Credit: Robert Laporte. Faswall green building blocks are perfect for homes, outbuildings, commercial centers and many...

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Protect your family and yourself with great indoor air quality

When people start planning a green home, they often spend a lot of time thinking about things like renewable energy sources, passive solar and net zero energy usage. Faswall green building blocks work...

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How Faswall Resists Fire and Wet Conditions

Faswall green building blocks are made with a special blend of wood and concrete. These 100% organic (and 60% recycled) materials make it an ideal building product for many reasons. Faswall creates...

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DIY Home Builder Returns to His Roots with Faswall Home

Coleman Pulsifer built his first home and helped several of his friends in rural Maine do the same. He enjoyed it so much he went on to work as a professional carpenter, building homes for others for...

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What DIY home builders say about Faswall

If you’re a DIY builder thinking about building your own home, you don’t have to take our word that Faswall green building blocks are perfect for do it yourself homebuilders. Many of our customers have...

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Faswall Home Featured on Oregon Home Magazine Blog

Oregon Home magazine featured a Faswall-built home in a recent blog post. This Hood River home demonstrates many of the best things about Faswall. The blocks’ thermal mass keeps the structure warm in...

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High Performance Homes Will Define The Future of Building

For years homeowners, contractors, architects and material manufacturers have focused on “green building,” or constructing homes and businesses that have less of an impact on the planet. But more and...

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Home Exemplifies High Performance Building With Faswall

Our last blog post discussed the theory behind designing and building high performance homes. For this post, we’d like to discuss the practice of building high performance homes with Faswall ICF wall...

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Buddhist Temple in Texas Showcases Faswall’s Versatility

When a Buddhist community in Dallas started making plans for a new temple, cafeteria and dormitory, they wanted to create the healthiest and most ecological buildings possible. Inspired by the work of...

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Growing Food Year-Round with a Faswall Greenhouse

When Susan Wyman of Gunnison Gardens in Colorado contacted us last year about building a greenhouse with Faswall’s highly insulated block forms, we could immediately see the benefit of using our eco...

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4 Tips for Designing a Faswall Home

It’s easy to understand why Faswall performs so well for builders interested in energy efficient, green homes. One look at our insulated concrete forms, which are made with a blend of all-natural...

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Protect your family and yourself with great indoor air quality

When people start planning a green home, they often spend a lot of time thinking about things like renewable energy sources, passive solar and net zero energy usage. Faswall green building blocks work...

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How Faswall Resists Fire and Wet Conditions

Faswall green building blocks are made with a special blend of wood and concrete. These 100% organic (and 60% recycled) materials make it an ideal building product for many reasons. Faswall creates...

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DIY Home Builder Returns to His Roots with Faswall Home

Coleman Pulsifer built his first home and helped several of his friends in rural Maine do the same. He enjoyed it so much he went on to work as a professional carpenter, building homes for others for...

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What DIY home builders say about Faswall

If you’re a DIY builder thinking about building your own home, you don’t have to take our word that Faswall green building blocks are perfect for do it yourself homebuilders. Many of our customers have...

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Faswall Home Featured on Oregon Home Magazine Blog

Oregon Home magazine featured a Faswall-built home in a recent blog post. This Hood River home demonstrates many of the best things about Faswall. The blocks’ thermal mass keeps the structure warm in...

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High Performance Homes Will Define The Future of Building

For years homeowners, contractors, architects and material manufacturers have focused on “green building,” or constructing homes and businesses that have less of an impact on the planet. But more and...

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