Deborah and Mark Morey took a chance a few years ago when it was time to add an addition onto their home, using a little known form of construction that uses concrete in the walls instead of wood. But ...
The latest 3D printing application? Forming concrete. That’s according to a team at ETH Zurich who claims that construction with foam forms cuts concrete usage up to 70%. It also offers improved ...
There was an entire row of exhibitors showing various incarnations of insulated concrete forms (ICFs) with their styrofoam walls and their plastic ties that are filled with concrete and then labelled ...
Rich and Patty Kubica, owners of K-Wall Poured Walls in Asheville, N.C., are concrete contractors who have found a forming system that offers several green benefits to homeowners. So when Cliffs ...
Q: I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children's plastic blocks. Does a concrete foundation ...
NORTHEAST FLORIDA -- It provides protection in products such as bike helmets, and most new electronic devices are wedged in the stuff. Now, expanded polystyrene, a cousin of Styrofoam, is finding a ...
An insulated sandwich wall panel that has the standoffs and rebar as a standard factory assembled part of the system The preassembled panel works in gang form or hand set design Corner connectors ...
People who live and work in Cedarburg will tell you that they've seen foam form on the Cedar Creek through downtown before, but it's never been as high as recently. People who live and work in ...