New building methods deliver durability, speed, and efficiency while eliminating many of the old drawbacks of concrete ...

Dear Donald: For all of the reasons you mentioned, concrete is perhaps the best of all building materials for homes. You probably have seen many homes with a basic concrete construction, but did ...

Concrete Construction Benefits For the Faichyger home, the thermal mass of concrete has reduced loads on their HVAC system and provides constant temperatures in the home.

If you’re looking for a home-building material that will last several hundred years, that you can maintain easily, and that uses mostly locally available materials, lightweight concrete fits the ...

After building six homes on their own, Bettina and Donald Kretz are getting their next house 3D-printed. Visual tour of ...

Homeowners thinking outside the traditional wood-framed residential box are pouring on the creativity when building houses with precast concrete walls. Not only used in below-grade applications ...

Forget your preconceptions – concrete is capable of so much more than stark, utilitarian structures. Versatile and cost-effective, it's the most commonly used construction material, which can be used ...

After building six homes on their own, Bettina and Donald Kretz are getting their next house 3D-printed. They hope to move in ...

Placer County contractor build its first concrete home in Santa Rosa-area fire zone There have been a handful of concrete homes, deemed fire resistant, constructed in Santa Rosa after the 2017 ...

Straw bales are used to create a home’s walls inside of a frame, replacing other building materials such as concrete, wood, gypsum, plaster, fiberglass, or stone.