The best concrete paint will seal your basement floor, deck or garage against spills, leaks and wear-and-tear—and look darn ...

"Generally, concrete hardens through a chemical reaction between cement and water," explains Kajima Corporation. "But with CO2-SUICOM, over half the cement is replaced with a material we call γ-C2S.

Cement is necessary to make concrete, but there are few, if any, times that it can be used on its own. With its inherent weakness, using it for anything structural is downright dangerous.

Man has been using concrete as a building material since the rise of the earliest civilizations. The Romans refined its use for construction, laying a concrete foundation for the Colosseum. After ...

Q: We would like to resurface the concrete walls next to the steps leading to a walk-out basement. When the house was built 15 years ago, the builder covered the walls with some type of faux-brick ...

But in the popular parlance, things get a bit confused—people often say "cement" when what they really mean is concrete, or think that cement is the stuff between bricks in a wall.

For years, President Trump said he would build a wall out of concrete on the southern border. Now, he says it will be made of steel, not concrete. (Video: JM Rieger/The Washington Post) ...

A concrete slab is composed of wet cement mixed with additional materials (usually gravel). This mix is poured onto a gravel bed bordered by a wooden frame, the latter typically made from standard ...