Edward J. Kelly is trying to build a business from the basement floor up. The 35-year-old mechanical engineer and entrepreneur is owner of Advanced Construction Technologies in Nazareth, a year-old ...

Pre-cast concrete foundation systems are a new construction feature in homebuilding. Unlike a poured concrete foundation, which requires a separate pour for concrete footings and can mean weeks before ...

Dear Jerry: I read your columns weekly and enjoy them, but your recent series on wet or damp basements made me want to contact you. Weekly on the radio I hear about this problem and the answer is the ...

Retaining walls are an indispensable feature for properties with sloped landscapes. They enhance the functionality and enjoyment of a sloped yard by allowing you to create a flat surface. This makes ...

Precast concrete is used in construction for building walls, facades, pillars, freestanding walls, security walls, pipes and tunnels. Precast concrete is also used for modular paving and is tinted ...

The Oxygen Development building in Florida required two rows of tilt-up panels which comprised the main building’s bearing wall and outside wall Oxygen Development’s headquarters facility in West Palm ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to ...

To match the color scheme of Palmela’s urban landscape, the architects mixed an ochre pigment to the concrete to create a dusky warm tone. The concrete facade also shows a textured finish created from ...