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, ...

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, ...

After a year of apartment life, Monica Hunt revels in the quiet space she’s found in the duplex she recently moved into in central Longview. She moved to Longview with her job with Christus Good ...

Building homes and commercial structures for an era of deadlier storms requires a multi-pronged approach including the use of ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. As climate change reshapes life in Puget Sound, from ...

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 ...

PARIS, June 16, 2025 /CNW/ - POINT.P, a Saint-Gobain brand, and Canadian company CarbiCrete, have announced the opening of a production line to manufacture decarbonized concrete beginning in the first ...