Call them the "soil guy" and the "concrete guy." William Walton, senior principal engineer for STS Consultants Ltd. in Vernon Hills, makes sure buildings are on solid ground. His colleague Robert ...

How stable are the buildings where we live and work? Our homes rest on concrete foundations about a foot thick and twelve feet deep. The foundations of skyscrapers can be up to 20 feet thick and 280 ...

Twenty-two years ago in Carlsbad (San Diego County), a Swedish family headed by Jan Erik Jansson set up Soil Retention, a small company that produces a European cement block building system that ...

Expanding the scope of its concrete products, Continental Mixers introduces a new solution for soils stabilization. SuperSlury is designed to transform cement stabilization into a clean and precise ...

RICHMOND — Activists are livid with the Richmond City Council’s recent decision that it’s OK for a developer to pour concrete over an 86-acre brownfield and plop 4,000 apartments atop it instead of ...

A group at Northwestern University wants to solve an engineering challenge now to prepare for the future: it's turning Mars-like soil into concrete. And, in turn, that concrete requires very little ...

Although many parts of the world need more affordable housing, a construction boom also brings with it significant greenhouse gas emissions. An architectural firm in Japan is using industrial-scale 3D ...

The new building material was developed by scientists at the University of Manchester, who drew inspiration from ancient construction methods that involved mixing animal blood into mortar to act as ...

Cement built the modern world, but it also quietly helped heat the planet. As researchers race to cut emissions from construction, a new generation of materials is emerging that does more than reduce ...

North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) led a $176 million project to reduce congestion and improve access to the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro. Part of the project ...

Williams Form Engineering Corp. has been providing threaded steel bars and accessories for rock, soil and concrete anchors, post-tensioning systems, and concrete forming hardware systems in the ...