When the Casa rebuild was done, the builders poured a concrete pad up against the basement walls to put a 2000L water tank on. Tank width 1500mm, pad width 1600mm, with the tank hard up against the ...

If you’ve ever given your garden a makeover, you’ll know what a pain it is to take hardcore, rubble, broken bricks and even poor soil to the dump, often having to pay for the privilege. It’s a problem ...

The production of concrete is responsible for 5 to 8 percent of global CO₂ emissions. Together with the construction industry, TNO is looking for solutions to this problem. In part 1 of this diptych, ...

Owners and architects choose polished concrete as an alternative to floor coverings, but the results can be particularly disappointing when polishing is specified for an elevated slab. Most ...

Landscape designer Laramee Haynes of Pasadena, Calif., often reuses pieces of broken concrete in gardens as an alternative to pouring a slab of concrete. “Broken concrete can be reused over and over ...