Typical of the type of project Icon excels at is the Waterside IV condominium building located in the Bay Beach area of Ft. Myers, Florida.

At eleven stories, the Waterside IV building is the tallest ICF building ever built in North America. And with more than 30 years of high-rise and vertical concrete experience, Icon Structures, LLC. knows how to keep this and other such projects on or ahead of schedule.

Completed in 2002 and 2003, Waterside buildings IV and V are located in the upscale Waterside condominiums development at the Bay Beach area of Ft. Myers, Florida. A total of eight buildings are planned in the development by Giles Development, LLC and designed by R.J. McCormack Architect, Inc. The luxury condominiums are 2- and 3-bedroom 2,100 to 2,600 square foot units. The ceiling heights are 9 and 11 feet. The total area for each building is 112,000 square feet.

The two buildings utilize insulated concrete form (ICF) infill walls with stucco finish. Waterside IV and Waterside V buildings are among the few tall buildings that utilize the ICF walls built in North America. Each building is eleven stories with the first story used as parking garage. The structural floor system is six inches post-tensioned flat plate with reinforced concrete shearwalls as lateral force resisting system.

The first two buildings in the development were completed with concrete block infill walls. Developer Robert Claussen, President of Giles Development LLC and general contractor Robert Ambrose, Vice President of Ostego Bay Construction, evaluated the use of ICF as another cost effective wall system. After looking at several ICFs, Ambrose ended up choosing Reward's iForm because he was looking for a form with no interruptions to impede the flow of concrete in the infill walls. An estimated saving of more than 30 days on the overall construction time was achieved on each building because of the speed of the ICF wall construction.

One reason the overall construction time is reduced, is that other subcontractors were able work right after installing the ICF walls. Since the furring and insulation are completed right along with the steel-reinforced concrete walls, and because there is less waste and a cleaner site, very little time is wasted on cleanup after the wall construction is completed.

In addition to the speed of construction, the water proofing aspects for the ICF infill walls were beneficial for this site because of high humidity of the area.