Every generation witnesses its own advances in building technology. Balloon-frame construction was a major advance over the previous method of post-and-beam construction, whereby skilled carpenters ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. As climate change reshapes life in Puget Sound, from ...
THIS work is a reprint in full of the two prize papers on concrete block construction in connection with a competition instituted by the Engineering News and the Cement Age, and, in addition, ...
After a year of apartment life, Monica Hunt revels in the quiet space she’s found in the duplex she recently moved into in central Longview. She moved to Longview with her job with Christus Good ...
Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...
Prometheus Materials' blocks, made from algae-derived cement, will hit the market in 2023. Prometheus Materials' blocks, made from algae-derived cement, will hit the market in 2023.Prometheus ...
Loren Burnett, the CEO of Prometheus Materials in Longmont, thinks it's time to reconsider the concrete block. His company's proposed alternative is a "bio-cement" first developed at the University of ...
Cement has been used for thousands of years, but making the modern-day version generates huge amounts of greenhouse-gas emissions, further jeopardizing global climate goals. Now, innovators are racing ...
Right now it appears David Horobin is building a dream igloo, instead of a dream house, in Alta Heights. Few curious onlookers realize that the white foam blocks — technically known as insulated ...
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