Concrete blocks are prefabricated materials primarily used for constructing walls. Similar to bricks, these blocks are stacked together and bonded with mortar, typically composed of cement, sand, and ...

With construction costs and safety concerns climbing, many are revisiting a trusted material with renewed relevance: concrete ...

More Than Gray: 15 Projects That Explore Red Pigmented Concrete A Trombe wall is a passive solar building feature that enhances thermal efficiency. Positioned on the sun-facing side of a structure, it ...

Every generation witnesses its own advances in building technology. Balloon-frame construction was a major advance over the previous method of post-and-beam construction, whereby skilled carpenters ...

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...

Building a new life block by block After fleeing their homes in Colombia, Jairo Augusto and his family were able to start a business making concrete building blocks for the community in Guasdualito, ...

Compared to Lego in terms of its build structure, our self build expert weighs up the pros and cons of insulated concrete ...

Cement has been used for thousands of years, but making the modern-day version generates huge amounts of greenhouse-gas emissions, further jeopardizing global climate goals. Now, innovators are racing ...

Meeting our growing energy demands without continuing to destroy the planet might be one of the biggest challenges of our time, and it calls for some pretty creative solutions. Swiss company Energy ...

Explore an unconventional method of creating lightweight cement structures using balloons and condoms as forms. By inflating ...