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Keeping water drained away from home foundations is important for three reasons.
For commercial construction it's hard to beat the cost, quality, and versatility of tilt-up construction. Now, tilt-up contractors and designers are teaming up to produce unique residential structures.
Custom-built homes are commonly gracing glossy magazine covers. That's because people in the U.S. have been in love with the idea of owning a large elegant home. For architects and designers, there is more opportunity to present interesting ideas and work with unusual concepts. But with the decline...
AAC is beginning to catch on in the United States, where there are now three AAC manufacturing plants with several more planned. This represents a serious commitment since the cost of a plant to produce AAC blocks and panels is high.
A new house in Sun Valley, Idaho, features decorative concrete throughout.
Egress windows are a good market for contractors--install them properly for a weathertight window.
Concrete is a diverse structural and design element for modern home building. In the past 10 years the Arts and Crafts movement has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity, and is being used in the design of concrete elements inside of homes. Contractors and architects have been able to take the comfort...
Concrete Construction runs down this year's most influential people in the concrete industry.
A large zero-energy concrete home is being built in part to add refinements to the forming system owned by the homeowner.
Regardless of the building system or materials used, there is no faster way to build a house than with tunnel form construction.
The city of Ålesund (pronounced Ole-sund), with a population of 43,000, is located on several islands connected by bridges and undersea tunnels along the western coast of Norway.
Handcarved shotcrete rockwork and timbers mimic indigenous rock structures.
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Some people get so excited at the prospect of building homes out of concrete that they don't realize that there are several different ways to do it. These require different contractors and have different advantages and costs. To be rational, what the proj
Homeowners have begun to recognize that concrete has a fresh new look and they want to take advantage of it, especially in outdoor living areas, where people are spending more time and making a greater financial investment.
While at WOC, you might like to visit some of the significant concrete projects in Vegas.
When work is plentiful, companies stick to traditional wood-building methods because they are familiar with it and have relationships with the trades who build that way. During slow times, companies get more creative--this is bringing about a higher level of interest in concrete home developments.
Bithuthene waterproofing membranes are designed for a wide variety of surfaces.
A comprehensive waterproofing system revived this 100-year-old abandoned cotton mill.
Thirty years ago most residential foundations were “waterproofed” with a solvent-based asphaltic product that was either sprayed on or hand applied.
Our cat frequently urinated on our basement concrete floor, which now has a strong urine smell. I’m in the process of getting the house ready for sale and have tried everything I can think of to remov