Concrete is a popular building material because it is inexpensive and durable. Plain gray exterior concrete — whether in poured-in-place, precast or block form — tends to be a little boring to look at ...

If you think you've seen it all when it comes to concrete construction, then you haven't sat down with Blaine Brownell. Translucent concrete is not exactly new, but HeidelbergCement's approach to ...

When you break your leg, it eventually knits itself back together. Osteoblast cells produce minerals that create the structure of new bone, turning fragments back into a whole. Why, thought ...

When it comes to designing and building new student housing, speed is typically of the essence as colleges and universities are eager to get those beds online as quickly as possible. For schools in ...

Concrete: we can’t live with it, can’t live without it. A combination of cement, water and ground rock or sand, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined construction ...

The doors could soon close on new construction of wood-framed homes. At least that is what many regulators are pushing to make happen. After decades of wood-framed houses being pummeled by wildfires, ...

Passersby might assume the 2100 Kettner building in San Diego’s Little Italy has been a neighborhood fixture for decades. The masonry facade that covers much of the six-story mixed-use building ...