Labor costs are up, material costs are up, and some multifamily projects that might have been easy to finance five years ago are now frozen in their tracks. But a cost-saving alternative to standard, ...

Concrete homes are common worldwide but less familiar in the U.S., raising questions about their cost, construction, and long-term practicality.

Wray Emerson has resolved to give his wife Sandra and three kids a new house this new year. “My wife keeps asking me when it’s going to be ready,” he says, laughing. Sandra’s patience may be wearing ...

Researchers around the world are working to find ways to make concrete greener, including at the University of Pennsylvania.

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Jim Jendusa started Hartland-based Jendusa Design & ...

St. James | Ever wonder how well your house would hold up in a hurricane? David Filios, an architect, has that covered, he says. The house he is building in St. James Plantation, near Southport, is ...

US researchers have developed Enzymatic Structural Material (ESM), a carbon-negative alternative to concrete that ...

BELLEVUE -- Developers of multi-family as well as multi-story housing in seismic zone 4 can take lessons from recent local projects that incorporated durable materials design choices. 1995 witnessed ...

Hear that? Pencils are sharpening. Teachers are decorating classrooms. Back to school is underway. With the attention to these facilities, take a moment to acknowledge the thought that went into the ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is studying whether a change in building codes would reduce the amount of damage caused during natural disasters. There were 409 natural disasters ...