What is the ROUGH going price for labor insatllation of ICF in a commercial building?    Two story with 15' tall walls each floor   900 ln ft of walls
Just looking for rough per square foot of wall surface LABOR only?

$10 to $45 an hour. By price do you mean to the owner or general contractor or ICF contractor? Does "LABOR only" include bracing? Tools? Misc. supplies?

Price per square foot / average form 5.3 sq ft wall surface / ICF Contractors' cost / prevailing wage job / again labor only nothing else included / labor to set and pour and strip bracing / nothing to do with window or door buck fab / thanks

In our part of the country, where NUDURA seems to be the major player (a bigger block, faster erection), Labor is $2-2.50/ SQ FT. This is for men/women to erect the walls, install opening bucks as needed, mount and demount the bracing, place and vibrate the concrete, cleanup, done. Barb42

So what you are asking is what we, ICF contractors, should figure our labor expense is? Or another words what we should estimate when putting together a bid? Commercial building often have fewer openings, corners and t's which is easier. But it may not be a simple design, so there could be a huge swing. I have figured $1.50 to $3.50.

I respectfully disagree with ColoICF, bigger ICF is no faster.

what part of the country and not just the  state . becouse labor rates vary county to county and city to town .that is kinda like asking how much are onions in New york compard to boise idaho becouse they are grown thair labor rates very so much . how far are you driving to the job where are you staying how much is fuel and housing and labor rates can very from side by side contracters over head for one might be half as much as the contracter next door one might have a office and one might work out of his house it is a opened ended qwestion medium income in my town might be half of yours and that is what changes per sqft prices and there is more after that but I will end so there is room for someone else . PS do you choose your docter by hew is the least money think about it  the cheepest is the one that has more blow outs doesnt owen alignment. putting concrete flat on the ground is one thing putting it vertical and doing it right is another.

I agree Mike, but we don't if he is a ICF contractor looking for help on a bid; a GC or what.

I have to agree with Mike and Brad on this as well. There are a lot of variables out there that are currently unknown, especially the location of the job. If there is a quality installer nearby (within lets say 80 mile radius), I think if the design is easy and based on that size I would think $3.50 - 4.00 for labor to install the ICF, pump truck, bracing, placement, turnkey install number. Perhaps a little lower, but that would be for me and where I am (Virginia). Like Mike said, if its downtown New York, that price wouldn't be sustainable in my opinion.

renangle

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