Sustainable construction practices have and will continue to drive design and specifications throughout the building industry. Because concrete remains one of the most used building materials in the ...

So much depends upon a structure’s foundation. This mostly unseen element can mean the difference between a long-lasting building and one that will need substantial repairs over its lifetime. As such, ...

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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 ...

Several years ago, Florida Power and Light reinforced the Lake Parrish dam, built in the 1970s to create Lake Parrish. The huge lake provides cooling for the Parrish power plant. Paul Falco, sole ...

A new "translucent concrete" is said to offer users greater design flexibility. When optics.org wrote about a new light-transmitting concrete called LitraCon three years ago, we had no idea that the ...

Light transmitting concrete is set to go on sale later this year. The days of dull, grey concrete could be about to end. A Hungarian architect has combined the world’s most popular building material ...

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