Who knew balloons could help build something so solid? 😲🎈 Watch how we use balloons as molds to shape creative and sturdy cement designs — perfect for unique home or garden decor! Get inspired and ...

Scientists from the University of Portsmouth in the UK have discovered that recycled glass powder can effectively stabilize ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise.

A nearly wordless meditation on the building blocks of civilization — stone and concrete — Viktor Kossakovsky's documentary Architecton is a dazzling sensory overload.

At the front of my building a wing wall extends away from the building. Some of the solid concrete blocks are crumbling away to nothing while others adjacent to them appear to be in perfect condition.

Rising demand for housing in most major cities around the world is increasingly at odds with efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, as the literal building blocks—concrete and cement—of the ...

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and cinder blocks make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by SOM, in collaboration with Prometheus Materials ...

Now, innovators are racing for a scalable, affordable solution to decarbonize the world's main building block. One of them is Boston-based Sublime Systems, which is developing low-carbon cement ...

“We’ve modeled our ByBlocks around the dimensions of a hollow cement block. Each is a 16 inch by 8 inch by 8 inch unit,” said Kujawa, and each brick is about 10 pounds lighter than a ...

University of Alabama Huntsville. "‘Waterless’ Concrete Seen As Building Block On Moon." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 October 2008. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 10 ...

Related: These recycled plastic concrete blocks are zero-waste Made of a special additive added to concrete, “admixture,” the blocks comply with coastal and marine construction standards.