The grand concrete dome boasts an interior coffered to reduce weight; sunken rectangular patterns pressed into the wall decrease its weight, allowing it to stand without supports. The top floors of 1 ...

The most polluting part of a building is hiding underfoot. Floors account for more than 40% of most multi-story buildings’ total mass, and many of the surfaces that hold up office floors and ...

From warehouse floors to high-tech, pharmaceutical and food manufacturing facilities, the trend toward jointless floors continues to grow anywhere fewer joints, fewer cracks, less maintenance and ...

Amid the high cost of labor and construction materials these days, the C-Joist floor and roof slab system continues to be a boon to owners, builders and constructors through fast completion of ...