EDITOR'S NOTE — Following are John Hanssen's recollections of a collection of buildings on the family farm. The man who build the structures — Hanssen's great-grandfather J.M. Hanssen, mentioned in ...

The Port-Colborne-based block manufacturer has begun producing decarbonized concrete blocks made with CarbiCrete technology PORT COLBORNE, ON, Oct. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - CarbiCrete, a leading firm in ...

This DIY outdoor bar can be built in just a few hours and for less than $100. My friends over at Quikrete have been telling about surface bonding cement for a while so I thought I would try a project ...

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...

WE GET WELL BEYOND SUNSET. BACK TO YOU. BILL, THANK YOU. A RESEARCH TEAM AT UNLV BELIEVES THEY DISCOVERED ANOTHER BUILDING BLOCK TO HELP MEET THE WORLD’S CONSTRUCTION DEMANDS. IT’S A CONCRETE BLOCK ...

My parents wanted a bench to go with the concrete fire pit I made for them. I decided to reuse the wooden forms from that project to make a bench. The bench consists of 2 blocks of concrete made from ...

ByBlock concrete blocks from ByFusion Global are a new alternative building material that uses hard-to-recycle plastic. The blocks are colorful and made of recycled plastic. Each measures 16 by 8 by 8 ...