Awards & Testimonials

Awards

Icynene Inc. was the recipient of the 2007 Innovation Award in the Spray Foam Insulation category, presented by Home Builder Executive magazine.

The Icynene Insulation System^� was awarded "Best in Show" by Green Builder Magazine at the 2006 National Green Building Conference, as an environmentally-friendly product that promotes green building.

Icynene Inc. received the 2006 Best Sustainable Practice Award - Educational Initiatives Honorable Mention from the Sustainable Building Industry Council for outstanding work on insulation strategies for added protection against severe weather.

Icynene^� was the insulation of choice for the Built Green Home at Suncadia, which won the 2006 Best in American Living Award and a 2006 National Green Building Award for exemplary green building practices by the National Association of Home Builders.

Readers of Building Products, Builder, and Remodeling magazines chose Icynene^� as the 2nd most wanted product of 100 in 2006.

Icynene^� was the insulation of choice for the Zero Energy Home built by AndersonSargent in Dallas, Texas, helping the builder achieve a National Association of Home Builders 2006 EnergyValue Housing Gold Award (EVHA). The EnergyValue Housing Award is the pre-eminent award program for builders of energy efficient homes.

Testimonials

After almost 30 years in residential renovation and construction, I have decided that I will only use spray foam insulation in any project I build. As a committed green builder, I firmly believe that using Icynene^� insulation to create conditioned attics and crawlspaces provides my clients with a healthy, comfortable, and efficient

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home. Icynene^� provides the required air sealing and insulation in a single application, eliminating much of the manual air sealing required with other products to achieve the same performance. In warmer climates such as Atlanta, building a sealed attic allows me to reduce the size of the HVAC system and install the much-desired recessed lights without worrying about air sealing and insulating around each one. I have Icynene^� in my personal home, and will do so again in my next house.

Carl Seville, Seville Consulting, contractor for the 2007 EarthCraft/TecHome Showcase Home

"This is the first designated certified, green-built home in the whole [The New American Home] program, and Icynene^� was a major part of that."

Alex Hannigan, builder of TNAH 2006

"We were delighted that Icynene^� was a team player with Goehring & Morgan on The New American Home 2005 project. Energy efficiency and indoor air quality are performance factors that are big issues to consider when deciding to use Icynene^� vs. the standard insulation material. Icynene^� helped us achieve an ENERGY STAR^� rating on The New American Home because of the efficiency of the home. We were recognized at the Southeast Builders Conference and given an Aurora Award for the ENERGY STAR^� rating."

Kim Goehring, builder of TNAH 2005

We have been using Icynene^� insulation on all our custom renovation projects since 1998. We have found using it in renovations and new construction to save time (the rapid installation and short clean up time is a huge deciding factor for us) and we achieve a superior insulating job; no air leaks, no purlins needed for roof ventilation and no call backs for "hot or cold" spots often associated with conventional batt insulation. We have found it especially useful where one client had severe chemical sensitivity.

Blaine E. Rust, Renex Custom Builders Inc. (Toronto, ON)

My wife Sandy and I live in rural Hubbard, Iowa. We live in a 32' by 42' Morton-style building that is attached to a larger machine shed. The 1,350 ft2 home has 10' walls and a 14' cathedral ceiling.

During the epic blizzard of 2007, we lost power in our home for 4 full days. It took until the end of the fourth day (when the power came back on) for the temperature to drop to 52 degrees. We used a 1 lb propane tank (similar to what you would use while camping) to run a very small heater each night, and that actually warmed up the whole house 2 degrees!

Last year, we only used 500 gallons of LP in 12 months to heat our home as well as all of our domestic hot water! We had Icynene sprayed throughout on all wall and roof areas. Our last home, which was 2,600 ft2 took 1500 gallons of LP for the year. Pretty amazing.

Icynene does what it says it will - it pays for itself in one year. I would recommend Icynene to anyone.

Jack Miller, Homeowner (Hubbard, IA)

The Summerset homes are designed and engineered to excel in quality and comfort. Given [the Summerset community's] target energy efficient goals, our decision to build our houses with The Icynene Insulation System^� was very easy. Icynene^� seals our homes better than any other product or series of products and helps us exceed the energy efficient goals without having to worry about time-consuming callbacks that delay our schedule.

- Roger Glunt, Jayar Construction Co., Ltd. (Pittsburgh, PA)