Concrete is one of the most user-friendly building materials around. It’s durable and inexpensive, yet can be made amazingly attractive with today’s new concrete finishes. Learn how to pour a concrete ...

This is the way they build a high rise: 14 men in hard hats, 45 stories above Rincon Hill in San Francisco, pushing, smoothing, shoveling, their feet ankle-deep in wet concrete. The crew is pouring ...

Watching a craftsman at work can be an inspiring experience. We were recently involved in a large, somewhat complex concrete pour. The nine concrete finishers, the two laborers, the carpenter and the ...

Kannapolis, North Carolina-based Wayne Brothers, Inc. is pouring the concrete for Ashton Southend, a 635,000-square-foot, 11-story building under construction in Charlotte, N.C. In addition to the ...

Crews this week began pouring the concrete for the foundation of the new Squantum Elementary School, another milestone in the ...

Dear James: I plan to have my asphalt driveway replaced with concrete. My neighbor’s cracked after only a few years. What should the contractor to do so mine holds up? — Dave S. Dear Dave: Your ...