Nova Scotia inventor of Bigfoot Systems® wins Manning Award

Our award-winning concrete footing forms deliver security for you & your family. Bigfoot Systems® is the original and only code-evaluated, engineered form footing for construction tubes that meets or surpasses building codes throughout North America.

• Inventor Kirk Swinimer of Chester, Nova Scotia, won a prestigious Manning Innovation Award for his simple yet elegant solution to a long-standing construction challenge - building footing forms, small wooden box frames to hold a tube in which to pour concrete.
• Bigfoot Systems® Footing Forms carries two vital certifications ( ICC-ES and CCMC) that exceed international building codes (IRC and IBC).
• Bigfoot has building code approval in Australia, Japan and European Union countries.
• Bigfoot Systems won the Best New Product Award in U.S. Homeowner magazine
• Bigfoot won the Best New Product Award at the Western Region Canadian Lumbermen's Show.
• The product is featured in several magazines, including This Old House, Fine Home Building, Popular Mechanics, Homes & Cottages and Extreme How-to.
• Bigfoot's featured on TV by This Old House, Holmes on Homes and Cottage Life.