Blocks are readily available at home improvement stores, they’re inexpensive, and their only drawback is that they’re a bit heavy. The most common type weighs about 40 pounds.

Concrete blocks are prefabricated materials primarily used for constructing walls. Similar to bricks, these blocks are stacked together and bonded with mortar, typically composed of cement, sand ...

One builder told the St. Petersburg Times last year that the precast concrete homes were about 5 to 7 percent more expensive to build than comparable block homes. Another builder, however, said ...

A: Countless people have this problem. Watch the news after each natural disaster and you see images of destroyed or flooded homes. Just last week pictures in the news showed nothing but concrete ...

Building a stackable retaining wall may seem like a project for a professional, but it's actually something you can do yourself. Here's how.

Robert Stock and his wife grew up liking castles so when they got married they decided to hold the ceremony in the 700 year old Balgonie Castle located near Fife, Scotland.

And so we really need to stop building with steel reinforced concrete, because we just have to demolish and rebuild the structure every 75 - 100 years. And, you know, it's ridiculous.

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 ...

The co-founders of Israeli firm Jacobs-Yaniv Architects, who have two children together, designed the 200 square-metre house for a plot of land in Herzlia – a city on the Mediterranean coast ...