Despite the advantages of this type of construction, a concrete slab is not for every house site or homeowner. Here are five reasons to consider passing it up: 1.

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The owner told KPIX 5 the concrete was degraded to the point that it could not be reused. At least one ICF home builder says some builders may be going too far, trying to create an all-concrete house.

There is no specific building code that addresses 3D-printed concrete buildings, but PERI worked with the city of Tempe and the state of Arizona on the permitting process for the house.

The historian Adam Goodheart writes that the concrete house suffered as an idea precisely because of its reliance on that mold, which was heavy, complex, and prohibitively expensive: “A builder ...

A Dutch couple have become the proud new tenants of the country’s first ever 3D-printed house, made from 24 concrete sections.

How Reinforced Concrete and Turner Construction Changed Brooklyn and the World. This month marks Brownstoner’s Steel Anniversary. ... He, his wife and their son lived at 28 Monroe Place in Brooklyn ...

One novel solution can be found on the Hönggerberg campus: the House of Natural Ressources, inaugurated this summer in a project led by Andrea Frangi. It serves both as an office building and as a ...

There he patented a method of laying reinforced concrete sidewalks in the 1880s. With that idea in mind, he began experimenting with ways of using reinforced concrete in building construction. Ernest ...