Transforming an unfinished basement into a fully functional bathroom is no small feat it requires careful planning, plumbing, ...

You can gain a lot of square footage by finishing a basement, but below-grade concrete walls require special consideration ...

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) has released the 2025 edition of its flagship document, “ACI CODE-318-25: Building Code for Structural Concrete – Code Requirements and Commentary.” The updated ...

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Concrete is the backbone of modern construction, but its heavy environmental ... have pioneered an alternative—a vaulted concrete design that achieves the same stability with much thinner ...

Regular testing and monitoring during production and construction can help identify and address potential issues early on. For example, conducting compressive strength tests on concrete samples at ...

Two concrete structures have been built using the Unfold Form so far: a 9.8-ft by 5.9-ft (3-m x 1.8-m) vaulted floor at ETH Zurich's Hönggerberg campus, and its twin in Cape Town, South Africa ...

Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has completed ... of commercial galleries." The basement level contains a hall set up for talks and events A geometric concrete staircase with simple steel ...