Our Mission
The first time you install an ICF wall the traditional way — stacking foam blocks course by course, setting specialty bracing, watching crews climb foam stairs in the rain — you start thinking about a better way. The second time, you start designing one.
Pow-R-Wall was engineered by builders who'd installed too many block ICF walls and gotten tired of the same problems. Slow installs. Specialty bracing rentals that ate margin. Walls that came out of the pour bowed because a block shifted when no one was looking. Two layers of foam doing the job of one wall.
The fix was to stop treating the form like a stack of blocks and start treating it like a panel — pre-cut to height, set vertically, locked in place by engineering rather than guesswork. Twenty years of refinement followed. independently tested the structural performance. The Fail-Safe Locking Grid earned a patented. The result is Pow-R-Wall: the vertical ICF system the builders who designed it always wished existed.
We didn't build a faster ICF block. We replaced the block.
Part of the Resilient Building Products family.
Pow-R-Wall is one of two product brands on the Resilient Building Products platform. Both brands solve different parts of the same problem: building structures that stand the test of time.
Pow-R-Wall
Vertical ICF System
Patented vertical-panel insulated concrete form system. R-33 continuous insulation, no specialty bracing, pre-cut to wall height. Engineered for foundations, above-grade walls, multi-story residential, and light commercial.
Waterproof Coating System
30-year residential foundation waterproofing system. Spray-applied, seamless membrane. The most-installed below-grade waterproofing in the U.S. for residential foundations. Visit Rub-R-Wall.
About Resilient Building Products
Why we build the way we build.
Resilient Building Products is built upon the philosophy that when someone asks you to walk a mile with them, you walk two.
That philosophy shows up in how Pow-R-Wall is built and sold. Every project order includes free virtual installation training. Every wall ships with project-specific engineering already done. Every customer gets a real specialist on the phone, not a chatbot or a sales funnel. Going beyond what's expected isn't a marketing claim, it's how a family of companies stays in business across decades.
For Pow-R-Wall, that translates into a product that's harder to engineer than a generic block ICF and easier to install than a kit you bought at the lumber yard. Builders, homeowners, and architects who choose Pow-R-Wall get a system that's been refined for two decades to take the friction out of what they're already trying to do.
Pow-R-Wall History
The road from Hobbs to Pow-R-Wall
Pow-R-Wall is a rebrand of Hobbs Vertical ICF — the same product, the same engineering, the same team, with a name that fits where the system is going.
