The concrete for the shelter is only 1.25 centimetres thick, so it is less carbon intensive than a cast concrete shell. Panels of insulation would be fixed to the interior.

Concrete Cloth’s durability also makes it ideal for military use. There’s just one drawback to Concrete Cloth: the material contains PVC, a plastic that leaches toxic chemicals.

Concrete Cloth makes the perfect addition to your apocalyptic shopping list. The flexible cloth is easily transported, but transforms into a sturdy concrete shelter after it gets wet. UK company ...

Well this concrete cloth by UK-based company Concrete Canvas's has just won material of the year 2009. Once the cloth shelter is erected the hardening process is then started by just adding water.

Concrete Canvas was covered back in 2005 in Wired. BBC News – Concrete Canvas allows aid teams to construct solid structures in emergency zones quickly and easily. It is a fabric shelter that, when ...

A solution to temporary soft skin shelters that are generally used following a natural disaster, the Concrete Canvas shelter can provide a more permanent structure that is both a fire proof and ...

The past 12 months have seen a remarkable number of humanitarian crises with earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand and deadly tornadoes in the southern US being among the most recent.

Concrete Cloth is easy enough to work with and cheap enough to provide communal shelters for the residents of trailer parks and houses without storm cellars.

UK company Concrete Canvas have been awarded Material of the Year 2009 by materials consultancy Material ConneXion for their cement-impregnated fabric. Called Concrete Cloth, the material consists ...

CLOTH from Treforest is helping keep British military casualties in Afghanistan to a minimum. “Concrete Cloth” as it’s known is also saving the lives of troops and refugees in war zones ...

A new group of local residents who have dubbed themselves the Committee For Shelter Sanity are making an 11th-hour plea for the city to ditch its plan for a concrete block building and instead put ...