Reinforced concrete frame construction is holding firm with excellent enquiry levels, reports Gardiner & Theobald overleaf, but below Mace detects a continuing downward trend in lead times this ...

By itself, concrete is a very durable construction material. The magnificent Pantheon in Rome, the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, is in excellent condition after nearly 1,900 years.

The typical floor construction at the college comprises 300mm-deep reinforced concrete slabs that span between columns on a 7.8m2 grid. These large spans and shallow structural depths help provide a ...

The sandwich, called a dual-plate composite shear wall because its steel- plate walls are filled with lightly reinforced concrete, is not for use only in seismic zones.

"They love it."The organization is working with Groen Construction, which has decades of experience with ICF builds, describing it as a reinforced concrete shell of a building."So, it gives you an ...

Under construction from 1192 to 1311, ... it’s profoundly impressive that a reinforced concrete frame has outperformed the steel of Taipei 101 the previous record holder for height by 1,050 ...

The study, which was undertaken by consultants Architecture plb, Arup, Davis Langdon and Costain and commissioned by The Concrete Centre, compared the costs of constructing a typical secondary school ...

Corbusier's 1914 plans for the Maison Dom-Ino were for "a slab-and-column frame intended to redefine domestic architecture by embracing the versatile and affordable new technology of reinforced ...