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 ...

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 ...

In 2002, the Building Science Corporation released their report 0202 on Basement Insulation Systems to give proper guidance to the timing and design for insulating basements. The report states: ...

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

News Features Bearing wall footing is key to a house’s structural integrity Sun., June 12, 2016 This massive long block of poured concrete is a bearing wall footing. It will be covered with more ...

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.

Scientists have been tinkering with concrete in an effort to improve upon the world's most widely used construction material — and they’ve notched some notable successes. New forms of concrete ...

Less material. More space. Greater value. The team that pioneered the local use of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) in construction plans to expand its application. “We’re racing forward ...