The Business Journals

Rebuilding for resilience: Building back better with concrete block

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In the aftermath of the devastating wildfires sweeping ...

How To Build A Retaining Wall Using Only Concrete Bags

Building a retaining wall to add a supporting structure to your landscape doesn't need to be difficult. Use this easy ...
UNHCR

Building a new life block by block

ALTO APURE, Venezuela, Feb 2 (UNHCR) - It's barely daybreak in Guasdualito and Jairo Augusto (not his real name) and his sons are busy mixing sand and cement to produce concrete building blocks. "We ...
Colorado Public Radio

A Colorado startup wants buildings to suck up carbon, one living concrete block at a time

Loren Burnett, the CEO of Prometheus Materials in Longmont, thinks it's time to reconsider the concrete block. His company's proposed alternative is a "bio-cement" first developed at the University of ...