Little did he know it, but an online continuing education course Keith Iott took a few years ago would help form his vision for a first-of-its-kind hotel project in Ocean City, Md., in 2019. Iott was ...

The waste sector operates in some of the toughest conditions imaginable, but with informed design, modern material ...

The most polluting part of a building is hiding underfoot. Floors account for more than 40% of most multi-story buildings’ total mass, and many of the surfaces that hold up office floors and ...

From warehouse floors to high-tech, pharmaceutical and food manufacturing facilities, the trend toward jointless floors continues to grow anywhere fewer joints, fewer cracks, less maintenance and ...

Dear James: I need an extra bedroom for my kids. It will be built on a slab and utilize floor radiant heating. I would like to install hardwood flooring over it. Is this OK over a heated slab? - ...

The Pantheon in Rome, built in AD 126 by the Emperor Hadrian, and 1 Wall Street, a Lower Manhattan skyscraper recently converted into luxury condos, might not appear similar at first glance. The grand ...

The placement of a water vapor retarder directly below concrete floor slabs on the ground has become common practice for buildings where floor coverings or coatings are to be installed. Such use has ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Garance Burke, The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Nearly two-thirds of the buildings that collapsed in Mexico City’s monstrous earthquake last month were ...

With Cat. 5e or Cat. 6 cabling now being installed in most new construction projects, some changes in installation methods are in order for slab-on-grade floor boxes with communication outlets.