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Reinforced white concrete panels punctured with cylindrical openings form shutters across the facade of this house in southern Brazil designed by Arquitetura Nacional. Arquitetura Nacional custom-made cladding to shade the upper level of Casa Ventura, which is...

Construction of the new German A44 route, linking the A7 near Kassel to the A4 near Herleshausen, is a challenging project. This includes the excavation of the 600m-long twin tube Trimberg Tunnel using conventional tunnelling methods. The tunnelling contractors at the...

Imagine a castle and it will be made of stone or bricks…that is how old bricks are! Red and rustic, bricks have come back in fashion with the brutal or raw architectural trend that has gripped modern architecture. And we have to agree, they provide a jarring contrast...

Anyone who’s been on a construction site knows that traditional construction methods are inefficient, time-consuming and costly. At each step, productivity is lost as crews wait for each other before they can move on to the next level. Delays caused by...

Cutting in half the number of piers on a toll-funded Interstate bridge made the litany of obstacles beneath it more manageable.Crews are building a pair of nearly mile-long new highway bridges amid a confluence of existing transportation systems in Chicago’s southwest...

Saudi Arabia's housing and construction sector surged by 8.03 per cent last year following its major projects in line with the “Vision 2030” and it witnessed further positive growth in the first three months. The kingdom's building sector will see faster recovery with...

* Wadi gravel, available in various sand deposits in the southern region of Qatar, identified for use as aggregate. A research project has identified the main solid waste streams in Qatar for potential use in construction and investigated advanced technologies for...

with concrete responsible for 8% of our global carbon footprint, it is more important than ever to use the material more efficiently. although optimization algorithms can significantly reduce the amount of concrete used on complex buildings, the construction industry...

Whether crumbling tunnel walls, cracks in concrete facades or porous bridge piers, according to statistics from the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), damage to concrete structures caused by various environmental influences accounts for several...