When a family in Austin needed room to grow, Low Design Office gave them 1,000 square feet of subterranean space for a playroom and guest suite. Welcome to How They Pulled It Off, where we take a ...

CertainTeed’s basement design course contributes one credit hour toward the LEED professional credential, which requires 15 credits every two years.

Because of this, the cost of poured concrete walls has become more competitive. Morabito estimates that in his design work the mix is about 50-50 between block and poured concrete.

ACI 332-14 specifies a maximum water to cementitious material ratio (w/cm) of 0.45 and as seen in Mix 3 of figure 1 (a common mix design for residential concrete walls), this means that around 20 ...

Engineers and builders are beginning to leverage a strategy that brings in specialty expertise early, speeds up delivery and ...

The floor of the basement, which had been a playroom for Izzadora and her two siblings, had just been covered in concrete about 30 minutes earlier by contractor Jonathan Porter and his fellow workers.

WESTPORT — Paul Gudas had planned to build an 8,000-square-foot wood-framed home a few months ago, before he learned about a decades-old but relatively unknown construction method.