Q: I’m thinking of buying a dilapidated old frame house in the country. It has a stone foundation that seems to me to be too close to the ground. Are stone foundations adequate and strong? Is it ...

Materials scientists develop techniques to control the microscopic shape of cement particles for the bottom-up manufacture of stronger, more durable and more environmentally friendly concrete.

During the first century BC, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect, engineer and designer penned a concept in his de Architectura book of works. The concept for art and architecture alike was ...

The three groups of tree-like supports tower over three storeys in the foyer. Unlike in most other cases, they were not concreted from above but from below. Image ...

The architecture of Cyprus has been defined by larger geopolitical forces throughout history. Located in the Eastern Mediterranean, the island country is shaped physically and socially by the Cyprus ...

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HOUSTON - (Dec. 7, 2016) - Bringing order to disorder is key to making stronger and greener cement, the paste that binds concrete. Scientists at Rice University have decoded the kinetic properties of ...