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Mahogany Taylor is a licensed contractor with more than 35 years of experience in construction and interior design. She started early as an apprentice in several trades and gained industry ...

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The American Concrete Institute (ACI ... include improvements to deep foundation requirements across all seismic design categories and clarified guidelines for cantilever and basement wall shear ...

But researchers with ETH Zurich have pioneered an alternative—a vaulted concrete design that achieves the same stability with much thinner sections and no steel reinforcement. This concrete ...

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Human femurs have inspired a new cement-based construction material that is multiple times stronger than traditional concrete. But the bone-like design doesn’t get its resiliency from any new ...

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A man died early Saturday morning after he was crushed underneath a concrete block at a work site in Commerce, authorities said. The incident took place at about 12:08 a.m. at the 7000 block of ...