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TOANO — When LaTasha, Askia and their two children move into their three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,347-square-foot home this spring, they’ll know it was built with efficiency and sustainability at the forefront.

Two Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg homes currently under construction in Toano are using a modern building method called Insulated Concrete Forms, or ICF. The homes are the fifth and sixth built by the local Habitat affiliate to utilize the method, which uses interlocked rigid foam forms reinforced with rebar and concrete.

The foam insulation is about 2.5 inches on the inside and outside, and the concrete cures with the forms remaining in place to permanently provide insulation, said Tyler Johnson, a Habitat partne

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