Concrete; Decarbonizing Our Built Environment, Concrete Block by Concrete Block. Experts and academics joined together to develop CarbonStar, the first international standard for a single clear ...

A four-story French Quarter building partially collapsed this week, sending construction materials onto the sidewalk and ...

Locally made across Minnesota, concrete block’s sustainability advantage starts at the source. Its manufacturing process uses less cement and water, which cuts emissions right from the beginning.

Each block is a thick rectangular prism of concrete, with a base of about 4×4 feet and a height of about 6 feet. That means each block weighs over 6 tons, and the third one was added in June 2013.

EL CAJON — A stubborn three-alarm fire tore through part of a commercial building in El Cajon on Monday night, destroying a popcorn business, a fire official said. The blaze was reported shortly ...

A concrete block retaining wall comprises Concrete Masonry Units (CMUs) — blocks made of concrete. In a retaining wall, these blocks are stacked together in several courses, and capped off with ...

Structural materials have not changed all that much since reinforced concrete was introduced to construction in the late 19th century, but a fiber-reinforced, mineral composite system boasting ...