Wood has been the concrete contractor’s formwork of choice for years. It’s relatively inexpensive and easy to understand, light weight, can be easily cut to size, and easy to replace and dismantle.

Brick construction creates lasting materials but often ends in waste when buildings are torn down early. Engineers in Austria ...

MevaLite is the premiere hand-set clamp formwork system. Made of aluminum, it is light-weight and can be set up quickly with as little as one worker, but still has a sturdy concrete load capacity of 1 ...

Molinelli Architects and ST Bungalow have been granted a US patent for their Stay-In-Place (SIP) arched concrete reinforcement system, made from 100% recycled materials such as fibre-reinforced ...

Insulating concrete forms have a long history of success in low-rise buildings, but now Building Teams are specifying ICFs for mid- and high-rise structures—more than 100 feet. ICF walls can be used ...

Rammed earth is the descendant of ancient construction techniques like adobe or cob building. It can be used to build walls for many kinds of buildings, from houses to museums and even cemeteries. The ...

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

Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology. But construction fuels the commercial and real ...

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 ...