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Concrete blocks, like cinder blocks, were once the standard for home foundations. However, these days, this material has largely been replaced. Here's why.

For the first time in its 35-year history, the St. Jude Dream Home® Giveaway will feature a house constructed with concrete ...

In theory, a cinder and cement block might seem like the same thing. After all, they're both precast and have the same rectangular shape. However, choosing the wrong one can mean the difference ...

Back in 2021, researchers came up with a recipe for greener concrete that had building waste and CO2 among its ingredients. Now the same team has used rubble from a demolished school and the ...

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 ...

Although many people use the terms concrete block and cinder block as if they meant the same thing, they are actually different building materials. While they may look almost identical at first glance ...

Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, but it comes at a huge environmental cost. Engineers in Japan have developed a new technique to make concrete by recycling waste ...

Cement has been used for thousands of years, but making the modern-day version generates huge amounts of greenhouse-gas emissions, further jeopardizing global climate goals. Now, innovators are racing ...

Right now it appears David Horobin is building a dream igloo, instead of a dream house, in Alta Heights. Few curious onlookers realize that the white foam blocks — technically known as insulated ...