You don’t have to risk injuring your back or your toes when moving heavy materials amid a landscaping project. Here, a ...

But you don’t need a hard hat to have success with concrete. Amateur DIYers use it for DIY projects of all kinds, among them landscape edging, kitchen countertops, and front walkways.

If you want a low-maintenance front yard, McLaughlin recommends being mindful of the plants in your garden. Annuals require a ...

The eco-friendly concrete block industry has not expanded as expected, primarily due to lack of political will, the dominance of illegal brick kilns, and challenges in developing the market. This is ...

A coastal flooding prevention project in New York City could be a model for communities along America's hurricane-battered ...

Seasoned The Block landscaper Tom Lovett (who has helped two previous teams win landscaping week) says the expectation is to ...

Cracking is usually minimal if a professional has mixed and poured the concrete. In this case, slabs will probably only develop small hairline cracks or narrow cracks. If you notice large cracks ...

LH 187 Office Building / Constantin Brodzki and Marcel Lambrichs. Image © Lucas Reitz A cornerstone of architectural innovation for centuries, concrete has ...

Slick concrete attracts fewer mussels, barnacles and oysters looking for surfaces to grab, and doesn’t provide areas where ...

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has developed Bio-Block Spiral, a carbon-sequestered material. Today, most buildings worldwide are constructed from concrete, which accounts for up to "8% of the world's ...