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Warren Jackson -Faswall Alt 004.jpg Page 1 Fc,s Wall C"n4 4) Sound Transmission test per ASTM E90-97 and E413-87 by"Riverbank Acoustical laboratories",1512 Batavia Ave.,Geneva,Illinois(3 pgs) See report for lab accreditation. The concrete wall reduces noise very well. Sound Absorption,ASTM C423-90a by"Western Electro Acoustic Laboratory,Inc., 1711 Sixteenth St.,Santa Monica,CA(1 pg) 5) Rapid Freeze Thaw ASTM C666—84 by"Construction Technology Laboratories"5420 Old Orchard Rd.,Skokie,Illinois.(2 pgs)Accredited,ISA,ISO/IEC 17025. www.ctivoun.com. The sample of Faswall showed no significant change/damage until after 233 cycles. Therefore fairly resistant to freeze thaw damage. 6) Insect/termite resistance,University of Georgia,Collage of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.(1 pg)413 Biological Sciences Building,Athens,Georgia The Faswall material is very resistant to termite infestation. Other than the University study the testing labs are accredited labs. The last pages are the old ICC report,ignore as you see fit. Yes,the testing was conducted under older ASTM but to be seen as at least equivalent to wood code framing for home construction,if the Faswall material did not burn then(given a 4 hour rating)and termites will not damage it,then it will not burn now. We have rim numerous analyses comparing a solid wall to the screen wall layout for a reinforced concrete wall. The use of an R of 3.5 is much less than an R of 5 fora"Special reinforced concrete shear wall"provides for an added measure of conservative load forces. Our shear wall design follows ACI 318 in regards to special reinforced design procedures. The ICF block itself is only a form as with any other ICF product. The concrete screen wall system is also stiffer than and has more redundancy than a"Concrete Moment Frame"design. The connecting webs are only an average of 3 inches long and spaced every 16 inches vertically. For many shear wall section the double notch blocks are specified resulting in horizontal webs at 8 inches on center. See the attached pages that ran test on unreinforced walls with horizontal cells 12 inches on center. Test case by Armin B.Meluabi. The test wall failure is a typical diagonal shear crack as would be expected from even a solid shear wall design and construction. The use of an R of 3.5. The screen wall is a small bit of both systems a solid wall and moments frames. An average of the two systems would result in an R of 3.5. 1 have been designing with an R—3.5 as I have done several houses since designing the in CA,OR,WA as well as CO and OK. The It is also dependant on what seismic design Category the project may be placed in and should be verified by the design Engineer of Record. In seismic Category D end above ordinary concrete is typically not allowed. Our design follows ACI chapter 21 for the"Special Reinforced Concrete"to allow projects to be placed in areas of Seismic Design Category D. Testing on a