Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. But wood construction isn’t engineered for long-term durability, and it often underperforms, ...

53 West 53 gets its dramatic look using concrete that was cast in place with elaborate, custom-built formwork for irregular columns and ever-changing floor slab dimensions. Photo courtesy ...

A working group of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) Committee 131 on Building Information Modeling (BIM) is actively developing an Information Delivery Manual (IDM) for cast-in-place concrete.

Precast concrete is a construction product made by curing concrete in a reusable mold or form. Produced in a controlled factory environment, precast concrete can be closely monitored during cure, ...

The company estimates that houses built using this technique can be erected in less than an hour and cost about one-fifth the price of more traditional, cast-in-place concrete methods that are ...

A good portion of concrete contractors offer cast-in-place concrete work in their lineup of services, whether they're building foundations, single-family homes or commercial buildings. Contractors ...

This summer, ACI has released the latest technical resource produced by this committee and now available for your business, ACI 332.1R-181 ‘Guide to Residential Cast-in-Place Concrete ...

SunLink Corporation introduces a new cast-in-place foundation option for its proven ground mount PV racking system, Ballasted GMS. Unlike the current default construction method of shipping large ...

The tub is cast-in-place concrete and was hot-mopped with asphalt to prevent water leaks. The grout between the mosaic tiles is eroding slowly, but the wall tile grout is in very good condition.

Q: Our house has concrete slab floors, no basement or crawl. Our air conditioner and water softener used to drain to an opening in the floor in the utility closet, but the drain is stopped up. I ...