Aluminum forms customized to a certain niche in the concrete market are also available. Charles Engelken, president of Wall Ties & Forms, says the ability to easily shape aluminum has allowed his ...

sustainable solution for buildings constructed with insulated concrete form (ICF) wall systems, which have historically been reinforced by steel rebar engineered to resist forces from soil ...

It has been nearly 12 hours since the concrete was poured on the Punta Gorda, Florida, storm-ready house. The crew from Solid Wall Systems is on site to strip the forms, scrape them, and reoil ...

There are two basic types: reinforced and non-reinforced. Reinforced concrete retaining walls contain rebar, thin wire truss, or some other form of reinforcing steel. The strength of the poured ...

Wood engineered for strength and safety offers architects an alternative to carbon-intensive steel and concrete.

Installing steel rebar can help prevent your retaining wall from buckling under pressure—this is especially true for concrete cinder blocks. Installing rebar costs between $1 and $2 per square ...

Wall coatings include wall paints, wall sealers, and wall primers; wall paint adhesion promoters; concrete wall coatings ... Waterproof wall paints are wall sealers that form a vapor barrier on ...

In 1913, a Pittsburgh brick mason named Francis Straub perfected a method of combining those cinders with cement to form ...

Additionally, because there’s been such a boom in building with rapid urbanization, new forms of green ... more easily through walls and more mass means better noise control. Mass timber is lighter ...

And then there were two. The final two custom-fabricated steel trusses are set to be installed into the Civic Centre “shortly ...

Though the average person will encounter the building as a visitor to the Observatory, One World Trade Center’s primary use ...