Concrete Residential Construction On The Rise

Concrete Homes Gain Significant Market Share (Portland Cement Association's Concete Homes Newsletter, November/December 2004) reports that 211,000 homes employing concrete wall systems were built in the year 2003. This amounts to 16% of all new single-family homes built in that year, an increase of 2% from 2002.

Types of construction included in these figures include insulating concrete formwork (ICF), autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC), concrete masonry, precast concrete, and others.