Giant, white blocks can be seen by drivers on Highway 101 near Fairview Avenue in Goleta, and the polystyrene segments will be used to support a new highway offramp being built in the area. The ...

Will your next house have walls of the same material used to make plastic coffee cups? Polystyrene foam, reinforced with concrete, is shaping up as one of the most-likely-to-succeed alternative ...

JOHNSON COUNTY (CBS 11 NEWS) - That bump on the road is never good. But on some roads, it's unavoidable. Engineers say natural settling of dirt under highways and roads create bumps and cracks in the ...

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A couple are saving £100,000 by building their own house, but they’re using an unconventional material to do it. Hannah Bird ...

Hannah Bird and her husband Charlie, both 26, decided to build their own house from scratch rather than buy a new-build property ...

Engineers have begun to fill in one of Newcastle’s busiest roundabouts using hundreds of polystyrene blocks. Work on the new £4.3m Cowgate junction is progressing and on Wednesday morning Newcastle ...

Huge polystyrene blocks will be used to fill in a major city roundabout. A £4.3m scheme to improve Cowgate roundabout in Newcastle began in January creating long tail backs for drivers. Now Newcastle ...

But Robert insists builders are failing to ‘tie down’ the waste products allowing bags to pop open and materials to fly off onto the roads.And as a council tenant, Robert has seen first hand workmen ...

Send your question to Umbra! Q. I am distressed by the bulky #6 Styrofoam blocks that come in the box on the rare occasion when I buy something new and large. I have not found anywhere that recycles ...