While concrete might be seen as a fairly basic, utilitarian material today, it was a part of several trendy home design ...

A smooth slab of concrete on a walkway or patio can be a bit boring. You can add color and pattern with concrete pavers or ...

Description: Principles of prestressed concrete. Prestressing systems, end anchorage, and loss of prestress. Analysis and design of sections for flexure, shear, bond ...

The American Concrete Institute has released the new ACI Reinforced Concrete Design Handbook as a three-volume handbook providing guidance to professionals engaged in the design of reinforced concrete ...

Dutch architecture studio Concrete has completed The West Residence Club condominium building in Manhattan, which features a brick base made with recovered debris and an upper portion made of glass ...

A first look at the prefab architecture designs of from Kanye West’s YEEZY Home; this look seems totally aligned with the principles of “affordable housing ...

Recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) reuses aggregates from construction and demolition waste (CDW), reducing mining for natural sand and gravel and landfilling with CDW. Historically, concerns about the ...

Hungarian design brand Sekhina has made a series of light switches and plug sockets from concrete as an aesthetically pleasing alternative to plastic. Billed as the first of their kind, Sekhina ...

Concrete slabs-on-ground develop curl when a moisture or temperature gradient exists between the top and bottom surfaces of the slab. As the exposed top surface dries and shrinks relative to the ...