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From the mud, straw, and gypsum mixtures of ancient Egypt's monumental pyramids to the sophisticated underwater material ...
Actually, entire houses can be built with the millions of tires that are tossed out every year. To build so-called Earthships, for example, whole tires are filled with dirt and covered with concrete ...
Industrialist Isidro Consunji built his family's DMCI into an infrastructure empire. The $660 million acquisition of a ...
Contractors were working on the building’s gutter system when the collapse happened. NEW ORLEANS — Emergency crews responded ...
For more than a century, concrete has been the foundation of our modern civilization’s infrastructure with a stoic permanence ...
Concrete helped build the modern world, and drove it towards the climate crisis. Now, it might help undo the damage. Long ...
The foundation has been laid and the walls are going up for the very first home in Habitat Green Freedom, part of a ...
The collapsing and leaky roof over the basement ladies’ toilets at Blackburn’s historic town hall is to be replaced.
Northrop Grumman conducted the first test firing of its Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE)… ...
Bunkers in Switzerland aren't just concrete rooms - they're part of a national mindset. From Cold War propaganda showing marmots ducking into burrows, to school drills and iodine stockpiles, the idea ...
After seeing success with its grant to pay for Radon Mitigation Systems in homes, West Des Moines officials say they hope ...
Now on the market for $2.95 million, a lovingly renovated St. Augustine beach home was once owned by late Gainesville rocker ...