Pros and Cons of Buying a House on a Concrete Slab Mark Cussen, CMFC, has 13+ years of experience as a writer and provides financial education to military service members and the public. Mark is an ...

Every strong home starts here. Watch the process of pouring and leveling the concrete foundation that sets the stage for a ...

This ultra-modern concrete house is tucked into a rural hillside in the township of Heathfield, about 30 minutes from the South Australian coastal capital of Adelaide. "Heathfield is a rapidly growing ...

Q: I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children's plastic blocks. Does a concrete foundation ...

A mixture of cement and charcoal powder could enable houses to store a full day’s worth of energy in their concrete foundations. This new way of creating a supercapacitor – an alternative to batteries ...

This is part two of a series on pyrrhotite and crumbling foundations. Part three will appear in a future issue of The Item. The telltale cracks that signal pyrrhotite in a foundation are not ...

Q: I’m concerned about the concrete deck base that is fully above ground at my new home. The other decks in our development have the concrete piers below ground. Shouldn’t the concrete be completely ...

Australia’s biggest wind project at Golden Plains has reached two significant milestones, with the final concrete pour completed for the 215 turbine foundations, and the last of 122 turbines lifted ...