PCI invites producers to "Stay in Tune for Success" at the 58th annual Convention and National Bridge Conference to be held Sept. 29-Oct. 2 in Nashville, Tenn. More
A new house in Sun Valley, Idaho, features decorative concrete throughout. More
I am planning to build a house using structural concrete insulated panels (SCIP)—that is, foam panels that have wire grids on each side and are faced with shotcrete, such as 3-D panels or the Solarcrete system. Is it possible to use foamed or cellular con More
Profile of Southwestern-style house with innovative concrete features More
Urbandale, Iowa, just west of Des Moines, will soon be the home of Citigroup's new 180,000-square-foot credit card processing center. Concrete Strategies provided design, engineering, and construction services for the project, one of several the firm has completed for Citigroup. More
Over the past decade, the insulating concrete form (ICF) industry has focused on selling to homeowners. ICFs are appealing because of energy savings, wind resistance, and noise reduction. More
Interlocking blocks of expanded polystyrene (EPS) have been used as permanent forms for a variety of wall installations, with concrete being placed in the voids in the patented EPS blocks. More
Several wall forming systems now on the market and particularly well suited to home construction make concrete the meat in a sandwich of insulation. Easily assembled lightweight forms of expanded polystyrene (EPS), usually 2 inches thick, stay in place after concrete is poured, providing a wall with an R value of about 20 before any finish materials are applied. More
