The giant steel-and-concrete bridge taking shape over the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau moved a step closer to completion this week with 5.8 million pounds of concrete poured for ...

I’m about to build a large detached garage. The plans call for a 10-inch-thick by 20-inch-wide poured concrete footing with two ½-inch steel bars that run continuously in the concrete.

As part of addressing this problem, a team at TU Dresden in Germany have completed what is believed to be the world’s first building made with carbon-reinforced concrete, in which the steel ...

Concrete and steel are the overwhelming heavy-weights in our industry with the greatest impact on construction and the Earth. We use them in our foundations, they strengthen our buildings and ...

Q: Tim, my builder is telling me to forget about using reinforcing steel or mesh in my concrete driveway and patio. He says he’ll just add an inch of thickness and that’s good enough.

The most polluting part of a building is hiding underfoot. Floors account for more than 40% of most multi-story buildings’ total mass, and many of the surfaces that hold up office floors and ...

“I think we will have to build a steel wall, as opposed to a concrete wall, because we have steel companies again,” Trump said. “I never said I’m going to build a concrete — I said I’m ...

Emerson has introduced its new EasyHeat™ Elevated Slab Heating System. Comprised of self-regulating or mineral-insulated heating cables, power distribution controls, and accessories, the system comes ...

Traditional concrete structures rely on thick slabs laden with steel reinforcement to handle structural loads. But researchers with ETH Zurich have pioneered an alternative—a vaulted concrete ...