Q. I own a diner where decorative concrete block forms the lower part of the exterior walls. At the front of my building a wing wall extends away from the building. Some of the solid concrete blocks ...

For decades, concrete walls and foundations were made the same way. Plywood or plain boards are built into forms that contain steel reinforcing bars (rebar) and into which wet concrete is poured. When ...

Q. Hello, Tim. I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children’s plastic blocks. Does a concrete ...

Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity is asking its volunteers to do something different this week and is inviting the public to come and watch. Instead of pounding wood together with hammers and nails, the ...

World Block makes steel forms used to create Precast Modular Blocks for use in landscape construction and long-lasting retaining walls. Our one-of-a-kind forms help save Precast Concrete and Ready Mix ...

In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...

Built on the site of a former gold mine-turned-sawmill, the Sawmill House references the site’s history with an earth-toned materials palette and rough sawn macrocarpa screens. The operable screens, ...