Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house. This TreeHugger has never been fond of concrete, preferring straw and sticks as building materials for houses, but then ...

Concrete is not warm or soft or pleasant to the touch like wood is for example and that gives it a bad reputation in a certain sense. But what we don’t take into consideration in those cases is the ...

Concrete and cement are often used interchangeably in conversational settings, and while they have similarities, they're ...

You usually can’t spot a concrete house when you’re standing outside or even inside one. Laura and David Owen didn’t know that the two-story house they wanted to buy in Olathe, Kan., featured ...

John Craft, owner of Kaw Valley Home Care, stops along the stairway of one of his recently built homes at 1417 Prospect Ave. Craft believes that the home is the most energy efficient in the area, ...

You usually can’t spot a concrete house when you’re standing outside or even inside one. Laura and David Owen didn’t know that the two-story house they wanted to buy in Olathe, Kan., featured ...

Australian Architects Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey contemplate concrete’s green side with The Concrete House, a free-flowing assembly of gravity-secured precast columns and slabs that the designers ...

Walk past a construction site anywhere in Argentina and you know the rhythm: months of scaffolding, dust, and noise before ...