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Brief  If you feel that your home does not meet your needs, or you think it is too small to accommodate your guests and family, you might want to consider adding another floor to your building.You can make your house into what you desire, and to achieve that, you will...

Brief  Many urban planners predict that by 2050, more than 6 billion people will live in cities, and in places where building outwards isn't an option, the only way to keep up with the growing density is to build up.While the sky's the limit, how does this impact the...

Brief  Climate change is increasingly threatening civil infrastructure as flooding, heat waves and other climate disasters become more prevalent, but a far less visible impact from our evolving climate is the slow deterioration of the materials that make up our...

Brief  Julie Mark Cohen offers a review of enclosed cantilever construction, how it's used today, how well it performs and key issues that are often overlooked. Some of those issues include bracing compression flanges of beams, directly exposing cladding to outside...

Brief  A study of the interlayer fracture behavior of functionally layered concrete found multi-mix fracture behavior depended on the placement delay and the mix combination. Results also showed that an uplift of fracture properties for functionally graded specimens...

Brief  Ibtisam Abbasi examines the pros and cons of incorporating a porous aggregate into the 3D printing of lightweight foam concrete. While foam concrete offers benefits such as improved insulation, being cost effective and able to be used in various applications,...

Brief  Cutting CO2 emissions is a critical goal for the concrete industry, and though it may seem counterintuitive, Craig Yeack writes adding small amounts of carbon, in the form of graphene, to concrete could help achieve that goal by improving the strength of...

Brief  Estimates of annual losses from hurricane damage may understate the real total by more than 80%, thus undervaluing hurricane-resistant construction, according to MIT researchers. The error is traced to the failure to take into account the density of a...

Brief  If you are planning on working with Dutch firms in the construction sector, or run a construction business in the Netherlands, it is important to know the current Dutch construction industry trends.   Insight   Dutch Construction Industry Overview...