Concrete — though it seems conterintuitive — floats. And floats well. This summer, in the waters off western France, this rock-hard material — used for megaprojects from the ancient Roman dome of the ...

Franco-Swiss company Holcim has purchased a minority interest in French company BW Ideol, which specialises in floating ...

Securing access to reliable supplies of concrete and aggregates is the latest step in BW Ideol's scaling-up strategy for ...

1. Statoil's Hywind floating windfarm will employ cylindrical floats constructed out of steel and sand-water balast. They will share the same power lines and be tethered to the ocean floor. (Image ...

Some buildings aim to stand out as much as possible, rising from the Earth like alien spaceships and reveling in all their artificiality. Others use clever forms of camouflage to virtually disappear ...

Modular construction is attracting more and more people (even young people, as we saw this week). However, some still reject it as unstable, a myth that we will demolish with this concrete prefab ...

Panaji: Six months after Union shipping minister Nitin Gadkari proposed the idea of floating jetties to the state government, Marinetek India has tied-up with the Alcon Anil Counto Enterprises to ...