non-wood forms. With the concrete industry moving in the "green" direction, and with an emphasis being placed on the materials used, the trend to use aluminum or plastic forms instead of wood is ...

Schaeffer suggests the following tips to consider when choosing a formwork system: The Rapid Form Bracket from Innovative Concrete was designed to take the place of lumber supports in the ...

In the new Phaidon book "Concrete Architecture," Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores ...

Scientists have been tinkering with concrete in an effort to improve upon the world's most widely used construction material — and they’ve notched some notable successes. New forms of concrete ...