Concrete: we can't live with it, can't live without it. A combination of cement, water and rock or sand aggregates, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined ...

The 10-room, 30,000-square-foot, $35 million mansion has a 1,800-square-foot primary suite that floats above the coastline.

World of Concrete 2014 hosted a forum on concrete home construction that underscored rising cost of property loss resulting from natural disasters, suggesting it is the result of softened building ...

Most people don't think about the tons of concrete in the buildings and structures around them until disasters strike, such as Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is studying whether a change in building codes would reduce the amount of damage caused during natural disasters. There were 409 natural disasters ...

An apartment complex surveyed by Masaki Tanaka, deputy director of the "Mansion Mirai Kachi Kenkyujo," immediately after the Kumamoto earthquakes is seen in Kumamoto Prefecture, Oct. 4, 2016. The ...