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Some St. Louis-Area Homes Feature Concrete-Styrofoam Walls.

By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 16--MILLSTADT, Ill.--Storms may huff and puff but they aren`t expected to ever blow down Bob Hucke`s house.

It`s almost finished, but just by looking at Hucke`s brick house at 604 E. Madison St., he said he`d have never known the walls were filled with concrete.

"My wife likes it," Hucke said. "She thinks it`s quieter than a normal home."

The walls in Hucke`s house are about 16 inches wide. Inside the brick facade and inch-thick dry wall inside t

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