White Cap Supply Holdings, LLC — a distributor of specialty construction supplies and safety products for professional contractors — on July 5 announced it has acquired Form Tech Concrete Forms, Inc., ...

A step-by-step look at working with concrete—from building forms to pouring and finishing for a strong, smooth result. Crime sparks state of emergency in New Mexico: What we know Here’s Why You May ...

INCREASING, THEY’RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SAVE. WHETHER IT’S COVID OR TARIFFS, CERTAINLY THE COST OF BUILDING SUPPLIES IS GOING UP AND I DON’T SEE IT COMING BACK DOWN. STARTING IN SEPTEMBER WHEN THEY ...

Concrete's strength and structural integrity come not only in its material properties, but also from how it's molded during construction. An architecture student has devised a clever way to build ...

I used rammed earth to form a concrete lounge chair. I packed the earth into a melanin box. I covered the dirt with linoleum and then made DIY white concrete by mixing white Portland cement with ...

From its earliest mechanization in the 1910s into the 1960s, concrete paving involved quite the complicated process. The same work was done as today, but with much different equipment. This image, ...

One of the topics of the Innovation in Construction Symposium this year, hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma Real Estate Program, was insulated concrete form buildings. Alfonzo Nieves, Fox ...

Abstract: Sustainable building materials offer energy efficiency and environmental performance. One possible sustainable building product is insulating concrete forms (ICF). An ICF wall section ...

Concrete forms the backbone of human civilization’s most impressive structures. Ancient Romans built aqueducts with it. We use it for modern highways. This versatile material builds our cities, roads, ...