Why do people fill engine blocks with concrete?

Pouring concrete into your engine block might sound like the kind of thing that can ruin your car, but there's actually a ...
The Business Journals

Rebuilding for resilience: Building back better with concrete block

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In the aftermath of the devastating wildfires sweeping ...
Fast Company

Here Is A Building Made From 3-D-Printed Cement Blocks That Is Also Beautiful

3-D-printed architecture that manages to look nice despite the fact that it was extruded. Creating buildings is one of the next frontiers of 3-D printing that makers and architects are actively ...
Columbus Dispatch

Concrete block on top of stone makes a great foundation

Q: I’m thinking of buying a dilapidated old frame house in the country. It has a stone foundation that seems to me to be too close to the ground. Are stone foundations adequate and strong? Is it ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Napa company developing greener concrete blocks

A Napa company is working to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by making an alternate to the most common construction material on the planet: concrete. A Napa company is working to ...
Colorado Public Radio

A Colorado startup wants buildings to suck up carbon, one living concrete block at a time

Loren Burnett, the CEO of Prometheus Materials in Longmont, thinks it's time to reconsider the concrete block. His company's proposed alternative is a "bio-cement" first developed at the University of ...
Datacenter Dynamics

MIT scientists propose power storage using cement blocks

Researchers at MIT have proposed a new battery alternative made from very basic materials. Blocks of cement infused with a form of carbon similar to soot could store enough energy to power whole ...