Mother Nature reaches out to us during the summer months with warm, sunny days and a lush landscape, so it’s only natural that we look outdoors to expand our living space at this time of year.And, ...

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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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They’re like children’s building blocks, except these ones are designed to construct real houses. German start-up Polycare says ...

Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF) has been in the marketplace for several years. Before the collapse of the housing industry in 2008 many homes were built with ICFs made by several different ...

A Napa company is working to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by making an alternate to the most common construction material on the planet: concrete. A Napa company is working to ...

For centuries, innovations in structural materials have prioritized strength and durability—often at a steep environmental price. Today, the construction industry accounts for approximately 10% of ...

Concrete has a giant carbon footprint yet concrete blocks are a ubiquitous building material used around the world. Watershed Materials has produced a new, beautiful and sustainable masonry block that ...

THIS work is a reprint in full of the two prize papers on concrete block construction in connection with a competition instituted by the Engineering News and the Cement Age, and, in addition, ...

There's a chance that the concrete fence in your backyard could be partially made out of materials from volcanoes. In 1944, three Arizonans invented a new type of concrete block, the Superlite block.