When most Americans imagine a home, they picture a wood-framed house. But in an era of high housing costs and extreme weather events, precast concrete offers a mix of durability and efficiency.

Crews have poured more concrete and torn down more wallpaper in the lobby of Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort. Birdcage Bar ...

When demand for CLT rises, it drives up the price of wood. Suddenly, trees are more valuable. This sends a powerful signal to ...

For example, a 2x4 propelled by a high wind can slip right through a standard wood-stud wall, a brick wall with wood frame wall construction behind it, and even a concrete block wall not core ...

That’s about 5 percent more than what wood framing would have run, he estimates. Approximately 3,000 feet of radiant heat tubing snakes through the 1-inch concrete slab poured over the floor panels.

Concrete Polished Concrete Plus Creates Wood Grain Finishes When placing concrete began to take its toll on Jeff Kasella’s body, he found a way to add beauty to the slabs others placed.

Consumers and builders chose them over frame-built houses because concrete-block houses were thought to be stronger, more resistant to termites and free from the rot problems that can affect wood.

A Yale University-led study has found that using more wood and less steel and concrete in building and bridge construction would substantially reduce global carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuel ...

In a typical wood frame building, he notes, floors might be concrete but in reality are only a "thin membrane over top of wood." In a special "why buy concrete" addendum to the project website ...

Foulger-Pratt, one of DC's largest developers, has several wood-frame apartments in its pipeline. It has plans for a 400-unit apartment building in Eckington, a 329-unit project on Capitol Hill ...