These tips and tricks for the home have been passed down from generation to generation, but do they still hold up today? You ...

Here's a detailed cost breakdown of our slab foundation. Concrete slab costs can vary depending on size, detailed specs, labor hired out, and material prices at the time of building. We are owner ...

FGMF Arquitetos crafts Casa Aroeira as a linear concrete residence sculpted into a sloping corner plot in São Paulo. Perched ...

The foam is shaped, the shapes are bonded together into walls, ceilings and floors ... of concrete, one over the other, until a full wall or frame is erected, then workers pack insulation in ...

Aging in place is top of mind for older homeowners hoping to spend every moment they can in their house. This type of tile ...

One building was gutted and renovated and the bigger one was stripped down to its structural steel, brick masonry and concrete floor slab. “The building presented many challenges — from ...

The internal structures of brick walls, timber roof trusses and steel frameworks have been largely retained and wrapped in a new insulating skin. The most materially intensive new constructions are ...

This type of formwork uses geometry to shape a floor that uses up to 60 percent less concrete and 90 percent less steel than the conventional reinforced concrete floor slab, reducing carbon ... these ...

The average flat concrete floor slab, he continues, is around 10 inches thick, whereas the RFS shells measure only 2½ to 3 inches (which, by chance, is just the right amount for thermal insulation).

Sharing design, lifestyle, and sustainability outlooks, the team achieved these objectives with innovative building materials and energy-saving components such as insulated oversized windows and ...