Grilling is practically a rite of summer, but you need room to work and store things. Customize your grill station on a ...

Here's the truth. You can build a poured concrete foundation that can crack and cave in within a year, and you can build a concrete block foundation that can last for hundreds of years with no ...

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and cinder blocks make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by SOM, in collaboration with Prometheus Materials ...

You have two options for building a retaining wall with concrete. If you're set on getting the job done yourself without professional assistance, using concrete blocks is the way to go.

The RENCO Structural Building System has a straightforward building pattern and the blocks are very lightweight. “A concrete block weighs about 37 lbs when it's dried out. Our blocks weigh 8 1/2 ...

To create it, the designers engineered a series of 5-foot-tall concrete blocks, each weighing between 926 and 1,543 pounds and made from two different densities of concrete.

Debate goes on about whether and how to seal the 6-ton concrete blocks. A locally crowdfunded “time pyramid” in southern Germany will be completed brick by brick over the next 1,000 years.

As weather patterns shift, the way we build matters more than ever. Concrete masonry helps create buildings that stay strong, safe, and efficient over time.