Resilient homes.
Healthier living.
Built for generations.
WHITEHAWK ICF is preparing to build premium custom homes in Dallas–Fort Worth around HawkCore—a six-sided reinforced, insulated-concrete shell from slab to roof—and HawkAir, a whole-home approach to cleaner air, controlled humidity, quiet comfort, and healthier living.
Founders 15 projects are targeted to begin in 2027 as each project completes design, engineering, financing, permitting, and preconstruction.
Wood is the Enemy of Great.
Many "high-performance" homes still rely on the same wood skeleton. Better tapes, insulation, windows, and mechanical systems can improve a conventional house—but they cannot change what the structure is made of.
Wood burns. It rots. Termites eat it. Water moves it. Wet organic materials can support mold growth. And even when the walls are strengthened, a wood-framed roof can remain the home's greatest structural vulnerability when extreme wind or wildfire arrives.
WHITEHAWK ICF starts with a different standard: a six-sided reinforced, insulated-concrete shell—slab, four ICF walls, and a concrete roof—with no structural wood in the exterior shell.
We are not trying to make wood behave like reinforced, insulated concrete. We are building with reinforced, insulated concrete.
Four concrete walls are not enough.
A stronger wall system does not create a truly resilient home if the roof is still framed in wood.
The roof faces wind uplift, flying debris, hail, fire, embers, heat, and water from above. In many conventional homes, it is also the lightest and most exposed portion of the structure.
That is why every Whitehawk Home will include a reinforced concrete roof as a mandatory part of HawkCore—not as an upgrade.
The slab, four ICF exterior walls, concrete roof, openings, and connections will be engineered to work as one complete structural system.
No resilient concrete walls capped by a vulnerable wood roof. No structural wood in the exterior shell. No optional sixth side.
The roof should not be the weak link.
Beyond High-Performance: The Six-Sided Solution
There is a movement in building science to improve conventional homes with better tapes, insulation, windows, and mechanical equipment. Those improvements matter. But the underlying skeleton is still usually wood.
WHITEHAWK ICF starts with a different structure.
Every Whitehawk Home will be built around HawkCore: a continuous six-sided reinforced, insulated-concrete shell consisting of the slab, four exterior ICF walls, and a concrete roof.
The goal is not simply to make a conventional home perform better. It is to remove structural wood from the exterior shell and engineer the complete enclosure as one connected system.
Your Home's Concrete Armor.
Roof
Slab
- Reinforced concrete roof
- Front ICF wall
- Right ICF wall
- Rear ICF wall
- Left ICF wall
- Insulated concrete slab or floor
The WHITEHAWK Difference
Total Enclosure
No structural wood in the exterior shell—including the roof and gables.
The 4-Element Defense
A home designed not to fall down, flame out, fly off, or float away.
Inherently Superior
We are not trying to make wood act like reinforced, insulated concrete. We use reinforced, insulated concrete.
You should not spend a lifetime's worth of money on a minimum-standard structure.
A beautiful home should do more than look safe.
Your family should not have to brace for every storm siren, run the air conditioner harder every summer, fight uncontrolled humidity and dust, or wonder whether the roof will remain the weak point when the weather is at its worst.
The danger is not that every conventional house will fail. The danger is spending heavily on a home and discovering too late that resilience, indoor air, moisture control, and long-term durability were treated as upgrades instead of the foundation.
A Whitehawk Home is designed differently—from the insulated concrete beneath your feet to the concrete roof above your head.
Protection should not be an upgrade. It should be built into the home.
One home. One coordinated standard.
You should not have to assemble resilience, healthy air, comfort, and long-term durability from a catalog of disconnected upgrades.
WHITEHAWK ICF brings the home's structure, enclosure, air systems, water strategy, architecture, and optional features into one coordinated process.
HawkCore
The mandatory six-sided reinforced, insulated-concrete shell—slab, four ICF exterior walls, and concrete roof—engineered as one complete structural system.
Explore HawkCoreHawkAir
The mandatory whole-home approach to balanced ventilation, filtration, humidity management, air sealing, pressure control, HVAC design, testing, and commissioning.
Discover HawkAirHawkSuite
Optional integrated features—including HawkSource, HawkVault, HawkNest, and HawkSpa—selected when they fit the family, property, architecture, goals, and budget.
Explore HawkSuiteA home that won't fall down, flame out, fly off, or float away
Four forces, one connected enclosure. Instead of adding protection room by room, HawkCore is being designed so the slab, the four exterior walls, and the roof work together as a single reinforced, insulated-concrete shell. Final design criteria will be established through project-specific engineering.
Wind
A continuous load path from slab to concrete roof, reinforced ICF walls, impact-aware openings, and engineered connections.
Flood
Site planning, drainage, waterproofing, water-managed assemblies, and materials selected for durability and recovery.
Wildfire
A noncombustible exterior shell—including the roof—with careful detailing at openings, vents, and edges.
Earthquake
Reinforced concrete and steel designed as one connected system for local code, soil, and site conditions.
Wind. Flood. Wildfire. Earthquake.
Why harden one room when the entire exterior shell can be designed around protecting the family? WHITEHAWK ICF is working with qualified engineers to establish the whole-home criteria behind this planned standard.
The Whitehawk Home
A premium custom home in Dallas–Fort Worth, built around a six-sided reinforced, insulated-concrete shell, a coordinated whole-home air system, thoughtful architecture, and craftsmanship intended to last for generations.
Resilient by structure
Slab, four ICF walls, and concrete roof engineered as one system.
Healthier air
Designed for balanced ventilation, filtration, and controlled humidity.
Quiet comfort
Continuous insulation, thermal mass, and airtightness for steadier, quieter interiors.
Built for the long term
Designed to reduce heating and cooling demand and to last for generations.
A clear path to your Whitehawk Home
Apply for Founders 15
Tell us about your family, property, plans, budget, goals, and desired timeline.
Complete Preconstruction
Work through site, design direction, feasibility, engineering, budget, scope, permitting path, and schedule before any construction commitment.
Build Your Whitehawk Home
Move through a documented construction process centered on HawkCore, HawkAir, quality control, and clear communication.
Help establish the Whitehawk Home standard.
WHITEHAWK ICF is seeking 15 qualified families who want us to build their Whitehawk Homes in Dallas–Fort Worth. These first client projects will help us establish the complete customer experience, refine our processes, verify our proposed standards, develop our trade-partner network, document lessons, and earn the proof required for responsible growth.
Founders 15 is not a newsletter or reservation list. It is an application and qualification process for serious prospective clients who are open to ICF construction and want WHITEHAWK ICF to serve as their homebuilder.
We are seeking families who:
- Plan to build in the Dallas–Fort Worth area
- Value resilience, healthier living, comfort, beauty, quality, and long-term durability
- Are open to ICF construction
- Want WHITEHAWK ICF to serve as their homebuilder
- Understand that WHITEHAWK ICF is forming its first client cohort
- Are willing to participate in a transparent and collaborative preconstruction process
- Have or are pursuing a viable lot, budget, design path, and timeline
- Are willing to have the project evaluated for technical and operational fit
Submitting an application begins a project-fit review. It does not create a reservation, guarantee acceptance, establish pricing, promise a start date, or form a construction agreement.
A skilled-trades leader building a better team around your home
Sam Whitehawk is a husband, father, and pastor who has spent more than 15 years working across construction, skilled trades, management, education, ministry, and nonprofit leadership.
He is a Red Seal journeyperson electrician who supervised electrical crews on major industrial construction projects. He later spent seven years leading skilled-trades education—serving as a Program Coordinator and then Associate Dean of a Trades and Industrial Department—recruiting, developing, and supporting the instructors, managers, and industry relationships responsible for preparing the next generation of tradespeople.
In 2023, Sam and his family moved to Texas in response to one of their daughters' health needs. That move—and the experiences his family carried with them—deepened his conviction that a home should do more than look beautiful. It should protect the people inside it, support healthier living, adapt to a family's changing needs, and be built to serve generations.
Building that kind of home requires coordinated expertise. Sam's role is to bring engineers, architects, building scientists, HVAC professionals, ICF specialists, manufacturers, and craftspeople around one clear Whitehawk standard—and guide the homeowner through one connected process.
You bring the vision for your family. Sam and the WHITEHAWK ICF team bring the leadership, experts, standards, and systems required to help build it well.
The ICF Show, presented by WHITEHAWK ICF
The ICF Show helps homeowners understand ICF, resilient construction, and healthy-home planning. The show answers homeowner questions, examines concerns, and brings qualified builders, engineers, architects, manufacturers, and building-science professionals into the conversation.
WHITEHAWK ICF builds homes. The ICF Show educates the market.
Connected to the Global ICF Industry
WHITEHAWK ICF is an Industry Professional member of the World ICF Association (WICFA), an international trade association advancing insulated concrete form construction through advocacy, education, and industry collaboration.
This membership supports ongoing education, industry relationships, and connection with experienced ICF professionals. Membership is not a professional certification, endorsement, or guarantee of project performance.
Learn About WICFA (opens in a new tab)Could your family be one of the Founders 15?
Tell us about your property, plans, budget, goals, and timeline. WHITEHAWK ICF will review your information and may invite you to an introductory conversation.