Labor costs are up, material costs are up, and some multifamily projects that might have been easy to finance five years ago are now frozen in their tracks. But a cost-saving alternative to standard, ...

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The 2026 St. Jude Dream Home is currently under construction, and this year, it's a first of its kind. Unlike most homes that are framed with wood, the home is being built with concrete construction.

Hear that? Pencils are sharpening. Teachers are decorating classrooms. Back to school is underway. With the attention to these facilities, take a moment to acknowledge the thought that went into the ...

As construction waste quickly fills our landfills, it also takes away a significant portion of the bottom line. There's a lot of factors in play, of course, but most common come are inaccurate ...

Wray Emerson has resolved to give his wife Sandra and three kids a new house this new year. “My wife keeps asking me when it’s going to be ready,” he says, laughing. Sandra’s patience may be wearing ...

Concrete normally has one job: keeping buildings from tumbling down. But researchers in China have made a version that can do something decidedly less concrete-like. It can store electricity. Using a ...

D-printed cement supercapacitors could turn concrete walls and floors into structural energy storage for smarter buildings.

A new study of the property insurance costs for wood frame and concrete mid-rise residential buildings conducted by GLOBE Advisors and released by the Concrete Council of Canada reveals a substantial ...