Jack LeVine's collection of concrete screen blocks are seen at LeVine's house in Las Vegas Wednesday, June 1, ... They’re in the wrought-iron columns that hold up porches, ...

Garraway says that in 2004-2005 cement was sold at $800 per sack and sand was $5,000 per ten ton. During that period the asking price for a concrete block was $50.

Move over, 3D printed houses. There’s a new game in town, and it is able to use standard concrete blocks to build the walls of a house in just one day. Australian company FBR’s Hadrian X is a ...

Dubbed “bio-blocks,” they offer a zero-carbon substitute to their concrete alternatives and were engineered by Prometheus Materials and the Chicago-based architecture firm Skidmore, Owings ...