SARASOTA -- When you're buying a house, you look it over carefully. You search the roof, the walls, the floors, for flaws. But what about the bottom? If only you could see underneath the house to look ...

A contractor and team of manufacturers tested 15 different methods and mixes for pouring concrete slabs at cold temperatures side by side. Here's what they found. In the course of testing concrete ...

When you next get the chance to go outside, I want you to find a hole in the ground that is an entrance to some critters den. Make certain the den occupants are not close by. Carefully place your ...

Adding steel or microsynthetic fibers to concrete isn’t new; we’ve been doing it for the past 40 years. Macrosynthetic fibers are a more recent development and they offer solutions to floor and ...

Australian engineers have converted low-grade clay into a high-performance cement supplement, opening a potential new market in sustainable construction materials Engineers at RMIT University in ...