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

Most people don't think about the tons of concrete in the buildings and structures around them until disasters strike, such as Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But ...

World of Concrete 2014 hosted a forum on concrete home construction that underscored rising cost of property loss resulting from natural disasters, suggesting it is the result of softened building ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is studying whether a change in building codes would reduce the amount of damage caused during natural disasters. There were 409 natural disasters ...

The 10-room, 30,000-square-foot, $35 million mansion has a 1,800-square-foot primary suite that floats above the coastline.

An apartment complex surveyed by Masaki Tanaka, deputy director of the "Mansion Mirai Kachi Kenkyujo," immediately after the Kumamoto earthquakes is seen in Kumamoto Prefecture, Oct. 4, 2016. The ...

Recently in the libertarian communist circles we are connected to, much of the recent discussion of what an anti-capitalist revolution would look like has taken place as part of discussions of ...

Long before the Chinese worked out how to 3-D print concrete houses, there was the Binishell. Developed in the ’60s by architect Dante Bini, the Binishell was, and is, a way of building by inflating ...