Mother Nature reaches out to us during the summer months with warm, sunny days and a lush landscape, so it’s only natural that we look outdoors to expand our living space at this time of year. Mother ...

More Than Gray: 15 Projects That Explore Red Pigmented Concrete A Trombe wall is a passive solar building feature that enhances thermal efficiency. Positioned on the sun-facing side of a structure, it ...

CMU today is bold, refined, and unmistakably modern. With expressive textures, integral colors, and dynamic forms, it’s ...

Concrete has a giant carbon footprint yet concrete blocks are a ubiquitous building material used around the world. Watershed Materials has produced a new, beautiful and sustainable masonry block that ...

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, ...

Which house holds up better in a fierce storm _ one with concrete exterior walls or one made of wood? “Ask about any builder what they want in their own home, and they’ll usually say concrete block _ ...

MURFREESBORO - As a child, on long summer afternoons, Frank Stephenson crawled under his grandma’s house to study and meditate. And to wonder. It was different. The house sat on piers of oddly ...

Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, but it comes at a huge environmental cost. Engineers in Japan have developed a new technique to make concrete by recycling waste ...