We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I like LEGO blocks and I really like to see the creations that geeks get up to making when they have plenty of blocks at their disposal. The ...

Which house holds up better in a fierce storm _ one with concrete exterior walls or one made of wood? “Ask about any builder what they want in their own home, and they’ll usually say concrete block _ ...

MURFREESBORO - As a child, on long summer afternoons, Frank Stephenson crawled under his grandma’s house to study and meditate. And to wonder. It was different. The house sat on piers of oddly ...

If we told you there was a sustainable substitute for concrete you’d probably say rubbish!… and you would be right. The dream of a resource-saving, emissions-reducing replacement for concrete is ...

Concrete has a giant carbon footprint yet concrete blocks are a ubiquitous building material used around the world. Watershed Materials has produced a new, beautiful and sustainable masonry block that ...

THIS work is a reprint in full of the two prize papers on concrete block construction in connection with a competition instituted by the Engineering News and the Cement Age, and, in addition, ...

ALTO APURE, Venezuela, Feb 2 (UNHCR) - It's barely daybreak in Guasdualito and Jairo Augusto (not his real name) and his sons are busy mixing sand and cement to produce concrete building blocks. "We ...