Q: I’ve heard of a “floating floor” system that can be installed over concrete and other surfaces without using nails. Can you give me more information? A: floating floor consists of prefinished wood ...

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 ...

Statoil recently revealed plans to set up five of its Hywind cylindrical-float turbines in what’s deemed as the first floating wind farm. 1. Statoil's Hywind floating windfarm will employ cylindrical ...

With low-lying areas around the world increasingly susceptible to flooding -- this at a time when population growth has necessitated the construction of more and more homes in such areas -- the ...

KALAMAZOO -- Concrete for sidewalks and building foundations? Of course. Glass-embedded concrete as an alternative to granite countertops? OK. But a concrete canoe? And one that weighs close to 400 ...

Bristol-based firm Embley Energy will use the cash to refine the prototype of its wave-energy converter Sperboy and demonstrate whether it can compete with fossil fuels and other renewable energy ...

Architect-developer Jonathan Segal’s 5,300-square-foot house, cast in concrete around a reflecting and swimming pool, has won the sole honor award by the American Institute of Architects’ local ...

NEW ORLEANS — If you throw a block of concrete in a bayou, it will sink. So how is it that hundreds of engineering students from around the Southeast managed to not just build, but race canoes made of ...

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 ...