Bluegrass Concrete Education Council Presents: The Business Case for Concrete Housing

Description

The Business Case for Concrete Housing: Highlighting Economics in Construction and Life Cycle Operations Costs

Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) construction is a high-performance building system that optimizes disaster resilience and energy efficiency, whereby the form system remains in place creating an energy-tight wall system.  Kentucky is a leader in ICF construction as is evidenced by the multiple ICF projects around the Commonwealth: schools, hotels, emergency and public safety buildings, convenient stores, student housing, affordable housing and more.  EKU, Bellarmine University, UofL and Transylvania University all have student housing built with ICFs.  ICFs are a natural fit for single-family housing as well.  Local projects and a national overview will be discussed during the presentation.  

Certificates of attendance will be available for attendees: 1 PDH, 1 LU, 1 CEU

About the Speaker:

Jill Lewis Smith, AIA, President, Civic Consultants, Louisville, KY

Mrs. Smith is a popular speaker around the U.S. on concrete building construction.  Quality construction techniques are the hallmark of Civic Consultants, Inc, founded by Mrs. Smith in 1999.  Civic buildings weave together advanced concrete construction systems, the Internet of Things, Power over Ethernet, disaster resilience and extreme energy efficiency to provide their clients with long-term intelligent investment properties.  Led by Mrs. Smith, Civic Consultants has designed mixed-use buildings such as the award-winning Liberty Green Community Center and Apartments in Louisville (pictured above), single- and multi-family housing as well as storm shelters, libraries, office buildings, EMS buildings and fire stations in concrete.  She has 35-years experience and is licensed in multiple states.  She earned her Masters in Architecture from Tulane University.