Working with private industry, the University of Cambridge has gone one step beyond 3D printing with a concrete infrastructure unit that was not only made in an hour, but incorporates sensors to ...

The interior shotcrete walls of the reinforced concrete structure, with flat-plate floor slabs, range from 6 in. to 14 in. in thickness.

Concrete has long been the material of brutalism, yet in residential design today, it’s anything but harsh. These days, ...

We've heard how 3D-printed concrete buildings can be constructed quickly and easily, but could there be an even faster and simpler method? According to American inventor Alex Bell, there most ...

Brainerd says delamination is a common problem with floors with a hard steel-trowel finish, such as warehouses, factories, retail stores, and offices with exposed interior concrete floors. To prevent ...

The building's exterior wall is part of its reinforced concrete structure. Facade clips, made of fiberglass to minimize thermal bridging, secure the exterior cladding and, in turn, 9.5-in.-thick ...

Let's say that I wanted to create a modest underground lair. What would it cost to have a large, two level concrete structure erected and backfilled? For the sake of argument, let's say it'd be ...