One company boasts a robust equipment fleet and waste division, while the other leads in residential insulation with higher ...

‘Architecton’ is a rebuttal to our modern way of building. Watching the side of a mountain get blown to bits in the new ...

Looking back 35 years to his job in Northern Virginia as an American Concrete Institute testing technician responsible for the quality of concrete delivered to building jobsites, civil engineer Rick ...

One of the more interesting areas of battery research centers on how these devices can not just store energy, but also double as structural components. We've seen some impressive examples of this that ...

Tens of thousands of older concrete buildings across California represent the state’s largest remaining risk of serious damage in a major earthquake, seismic safety officials say. Constructed as ...

Concrete is a blanket term for a varying mix of sand, cement, and water. While concrete has fallen in and out of fashion since the Romans used it to lay the foundation for the Colosseum, today it’s ...

San Francisco wants to identify thousands of concrete buildings across the city and retrofit them ahead of a major earthquake. Mayor London Breed has released an executive directive calling upon city ...

Concrete: we can’t live with it, can’t live without it. A combination of cement, water and ground rock or sand, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined construction ...

The scenes of tilted, crumbled and collapsed concrete buildings after powerful earthquakes jolted Turkey and Syria last month are sobering. In Turkey alone, the shaking wrecked some 185,000 buildings, ...