Meet Homeowners Who Are Build-Ready

Every introduction arrives with a soils report, ICF -Ready Plans, Sealed Engineering, System Design and Verified Funding.

Apply Below To Join Our Network

Sign Up As A Builder Three Simple Steps:

01

Fill Out Our Form Below

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and fill our our builder intake form.  Our team of ICF specialists will reach out and discuss how you can become part of our website and building directory.

02

We’ll Assess Your Skillls 

Once we reach out to you, you’ll have the chance to provide your training, experience and expertise in building ICF structures.  You’ll get qualifed for inclusion in our online directory.

03

We’ll Qualify You For Jobs

Once you’re part of our online directory, the ICF BUILDER NETWORK will keep your credentials and geographic service area on file.  If you match for one of our upcoming projects, we’ll let you know. 

Increase Profits and Build Better Projects With Build-Ready Homeowners

Stop wasting valuable time bidding on incomplete plans, uncertain budgets, and projects that aren’t ready to move forward. The ICF Builder Network connects qualified ICF builders with homeowners who have already completed our comprehensive eight-stage Build-Ready Path. Every introduction is designed to bring you a serious, prepared homeowner with geotechnical soil evaluations, ICF-ready architectural plans, sealed structural engineering, coordinated building systems, and verified funding. Instead of spending countless hours helping prospective clients figure out where to begin, you can focus on what you do best: building exceptional ICF homes. With clearly defined project requirements, realistic regional budget projections, and essential preconstruction work completed, you gain opportunities to work more efficiently, reduce uncertainty, and move toward construction with greater confidence.

More Qualified Opportunities. Transparent Terms. No Membership Fees.

Joining the ICF Builder Network gives qualified builders access to prepared residential construction opportunities without membership fees or the pressure to compete on speculative bids. Our network operates on a transparent, open-book construction model that allows you to recover documented construction costs while earning an agreed-upon fixed builder’s fee. Change orders are handled directly between you and the homeowner at cost plus 30%, providing clear expectations when project requirements change. The Network’s disclosed 5% fee is paid directly by the homeowner at contract signing when they select a Network-introduced builder—not deducted from your builder’s fee. Builders who meet our 12-point qualification standards gain the opportunity to be introduced to homeowners who are ready to take the next step. It’s a smarter approach to ICF construction that respects your expertise, protects your time, and helps you concentrate on delivering quality projects rather than chasing unqualified leads.

Design & Build Partners Wanted

ICF Builder Network — 12-Point Builder Standard

  1. Licensing and Legal Compliance — Meets applicable state and local contractor requirements, registrations, and building codes.

  2. Insurance Verification — Maintains appropriate general liability and workers’ compensation coverage.

  3. Proven ICF Experience — Demonstrates successful completion of residential ICF construction projects.

  4. ICF Training and Qualifications — Documents relevant manufacturer training and experience with approved ICF systems.

  5. Verified Project References — Provides references and examples of completed ICF projects.

  6. Structural Engineering Compliance — Builds according to approved, sealed engineering plans and specifications.

  7. Concrete and Reinforcement Standards — Demonstrates proper installation of reinforcing steel, concrete placement, consolidation, and quality-control procedures.

  8. Manufacturer Installation Standards — Follows applicable ICF manufacturer specifications and installation requirements.

  9. Building Envelope and Energy Performance — Understands insulation continuity, moisture management, air sealing, and ICF-specific building systems.

  10. Transparent Open-Book Pricing — Agrees to documented construction costs, a fixed builder’s fee, and change orders priced at cost plus 30%.

  11. Project Management and Quality Control — Demonstrates appropriate scheduling, inspection coordination, subcontractor oversight, and construction documentation.

  12. Professional Accountability and Network Agreement — Agrees to the Network’s construction standards, homeowner protections, contract transparency, and membership requirements.

0.1 Which best describes your company?
Designer or supplier → Professional and Supplier Partner inquiry. Installer → installer track.
0.2 Do you build residential projects in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas or New Mexico?
No → waitlist message; form ends.
0.3 Vetted Builder Standards
1.3 Entity type
Enter name, title, and ownership percentage for each principal.
1.12 Share of work you self-perform
2.2 Regions you actively build in
2.3 How far you will travel for a qualified hardened project
2.4 Minimum project value you will accept
Texas does not issue a statewide residential general contractor license. List every license and registration you hold, in any jurisdiction. Include jurisdiction, type, number, expiration; or explain if none.
3.2 Any license or registration suspended, revoked or disciplined in the last 10 years?
3.3 General liability limits, per occurrence / aggregate
3.4 Umbrella or excess coverage
3.5 Workers' compensation model
3.6 Will your agent send a certificate naming the Network as certificate holder, directly to us?
3.7 Written jobsite safety program?
3.8 Legal / claims history in the last 7 years
4.1 ICF projects completed as the responsible builder (GC)
4.2 ICF projects completed as installer or sub only
4.3 Years building with ICF
4.4 ICF systems used
List system, year, and who holds it. Upload supporting certificate(s) in Step 7.
For each, state own crew, regular sub, or varies.
4.7 How do you consolidate concrete in ICF walls during a pour?
4.9 Form blowouts in your last 10 ICF pours
4.10 Structural basis of your ICF homes
4.13 Concrete floor or roof systems you have built
4.14 Do you blower-door test your ICF homes?
Development branch — formal ICF training received?
Development branch — interested in Network training?
Development branch — actively adding ICF to your services?
Step 5 — Hardened capability lanes selected
A1 safe rooms/shelters built to ICC 500 or FEMA P-361 (count); A2 design wind speed and who sets it; A3 impact/high-wind doors/windows installed (products); A4 roof system: concrete deck / engineered continuous load path / conventional.
B1 above-grade whole-structure ICF homes completed (count); B2 how you handle bucks, MEP chases and finish attachment; B3 largest ICF home completed (sq ft).
C1 ICF basements completed (count); C2 below-grade waterproofing/drainage systems (products); C3 concrete ceilings/roofs or hardened openings above grade (count); C4 backfill sequencing relative to floor diaphragm.
D1 earth-covered/bermed homes completed (count); D2 membrane system and warranty; D3 who engineers earth-load roof/retaining walls; D4 geotechnical report required before bid?; D5 backfill compaction control/testing.
6.1 How do you contract today?
6.2 Will you contract Network-introduced projects as open-book cost-plus with a flat builder's fee, supplier invoices visible to the owner?
6.3 Your typical flat builder's fee on hardened custom work, as % of contract
6.4 Will you accept the Network contract framework's change-order terms: work outside the original scope priced at cost plus 30%, paid to you, with no Network share?
6.5 Will you build every Network project to the Network Construction Standard, provided to you before the Membership Agreement?
6.6 Network-introduced projects carry a success fee of 5% of the signed baseline contract amount, under the Membership Agreement. It appears in the client contract as a disclosed Network fee line within the baseline and is paid directly to the Network by the owner out of the initial funding deposit at contract signing, under the Network Fee Amendment. You authorize this direct payment as full satisfaction of your fee for that project. The fee is fixed on the baseline signed that day, with no true-up. Change orders and all later costs are excluded and are solely between you and the client.
6.7 You will not contract with a Network-introduced client outside the Network for 24 months after introduction.
6.8 You will update each introduced opportunity's status (contacted, meeting held, proposal, selected, not selected, signed, lost) in the Network portal within 5 business days of any change, until the project is signed or lost. Reporting ends once the fee is paid.
6.9 Will you bid from the Network's permit-ready package (stamped plans, engineering, soils, HVAC design, three-level budget) as issued, proposing changes only as priced alternates?
6.10 Accepting new projects now?
6.11 Network projects you could start in the next 12 months
6.13 Typical time from signed contract to mobilization
6.14 You will contact every introduced client within 1 business day.
6.16 Bank or bonding reference available at verification?
6.17 Introductions may include a second certified Network builder, and the client chooses. You will compete on fit and transparency and will not disparage the other builder to the client.
6.18 Some clients separately retain the Network as ICF consultant through completion of the ICF scope (foundations, walls, concrete roofs). On those projects you will give the Network's consultant site access and agreed pre-pour inspection windows. The engagement ends when the ICF scope is complete.
For each: name, phone, email, project city, year, matching portfolio #.
Company, contact, phone.
7.4 How did you hear about the Network?
7.5 Attestation
7.6 Email consent
7.6 SMS consent

Phone

972.533.8678

Email

Consult@icfbuildernetwork.com