Helix

Not only is doing the engineering, but HAS DONE engineering. There has been thousands of tests done independently from helix with zero failures. I'm personally pouring the ICF basement walls of a 10,000+ sqft complete ICF home with helix and NO rebar tomorrow. Our footings were 80 yards with not a lick of rebar. The only bar on this entire project is at the cold joints and stress points over the openings. The only reason we use it at the stress points is simply because its not cost effective to put enough helix in the entire wall just to get the strength needed at only a few select spots.

True, rebar has been working for thousands of years, but how naive and limiting is it of us as contractors to say that just because its worked for so long that there just simply cannot be another alternative that just might work better? This stuff has been very widely used over seas on huge commercial and industrial projects and in the 10 years or so its been on the market they have had ZERO failures. Can you say that about rebar? The evidence and the science is all there to back this stuff up, are you willing to look at it?

When finishing a slab the fibers act as an aggregate and drop below the surface of the concrete when you work up a paste. Its used for parking lots, driveways and floors all the time. In fact, on this house we're doing now, all the basement floors will be stained concrete with helix in it. Also, there's a parking lot at Lite-form, an ICF manufacturer that is a big proponent of helix, that is poured 2" thick with 2" of EPS under it to control frost. This parking lot is full of cars and trucks daily, has been for a few years now and doesn't have a crack in it. Another example is Australia. They pour lots of roads and interstates with it. No rebar. This house we're doing now was all engineered specifically for helix. Has a Missouri stamp on it. I'd say he's willing to bet his career on it.