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

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, ...

Loren Burnett, the CEO of Prometheus Materials in Longmont, thinks it's time to reconsider the concrete block. His company's proposed alternative is a "bio-cement" first developed at the University of ...

Back in 2021, researchers came up with a recipe for greener concrete that had building waste and CO2 among its ingredients. Now the same team has used rubble from a demolished school and the ...

Explore an unconventional method of creating lightweight cement structures using balloons and condoms as forms. By inflating these objects and coating them with cement mixture, we create organic, ...

Scientists in Singapore have found a way for concrete to absorb CO2 instead of emitting it. Could this invention ...

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