Large shell structures made of concrete or stone are hardly ever built any more. The reason is that their construction requires large, expensive supporting structures. A completely new construction ...

RIVIERA BEACH — A one-in-a kind inflatable structure is now part of the landscape at the Port of Palm Beach with its newest tenant, Ozinga, storing thousands of tons of cement in the structure. It ...

A completely new way of building concrete structures has been developed: Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology bend concrete with an air cushion, making complicated timber structures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inflatable concrete building sounds a bit ludicrous - until you see the seemingly-magical construction of a Concrete Canvas ...

Take the Concrete Canvas, add air and water, wait twelve hours, and you have a portable building that offers more structural stability than a tent at half the cost of existing portable buildings.

Constructing a concrete dome is a costly process, but this may change soon. A team from the Vienna University of Technology has developed a method that allows concrete domes to form with the use of ...

This news release is available in German. Large shell structures made of concrete or stone are hardly ever built any more. The reason is that their construction requires large, expensive supporting ...