PHOENIX — Amid global climate change and a chronic shortage of affordable housing, local construction companies ... it’s a solid double wall of concrete with foam insulation.” ...

You can gain a lot of square footage by finishing a basement, but below-grade concrete walls require special consideration ...

Biomaterials are pushing through the concrete-heavy industry to make it more ... It isn’t just biocement that could turn the tide for the construction industry. Materials used for wall cladding and ...

One such superior alternative material is the Cellular Lightweight Foam Concrete (CLFC ... on prefabricated lightweight composite wall panels under flexural loading”, Journal of Civil Engineering and ...

Having spent 30+ years in residential construction ... holes in an existing slab and injecting a concrete slurry or dense polyurethane foam underneath the failing section. Slab jacking is a ...

As California’s wildfires rage and major home insurers pull out of the state, the rising risk of home fires isn’t being helped by conventional construction ... wall panels comprise two layers of fiber ...

Concrete cracks. That’s a fact of construction life that has been with ... has a foundation and walls that are thoroughly cracked. But cracking concrete has met its match, and you don’t ...