Due to the recent hurricanes in the United States, many thousands of homes have been flooded. This has ruined wooden floors and carpets, leaving homeowners with tough decisions about replacing their floors. Diane Cowen, writing on the website Chron.com, has questioned whether homeowners need to install new wooden floors. Instead, she suggests concrete flooring. She […]
Read MoreStudents and researchers at Washington University have constructed an eco-house built mainly from concrete to demonstrate that the material can be used in sustainable ways. Crete House is a solar-powered building constructed almost entirely from precast concrete. Water coils embedded in the concrete flooring and ceiling provide heating and cooling. Large gutters provide shade and […]
Read MoreConcrete is traditionally seen as a hard cold surface, but new office buildings are contradicting this perspective by using concrete flooring designed to create a warm atmosphere. Symantec, the computer security company’s office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an example of how a building can use concrete flooring to promote a good atmosphere. The intention of […]
Read MoreFor a long time, concrete floors have been coated with a number of products, but new developments in concrete floor coatings point to how concrete floors will be coated in the future. Many concrete flooring installations requires several layers of coating, but decorative coating firm Byk is working on one layer coating systems. The coatings […]
Read MoreResearch is currently being undertaken to print 3D objects in concrete, perhaps literally paving the way for concrete flooring to be produced in an entirely different way. The building contractors Skanska is working with a number of partners to develop 3D printing of concrete. Loughborough University started researching 3D concrete printing in 2007 a year […]
Read MoreGothic cathedral architecture has inspired a new type of concrete flooring. Concrete flooring needs to be strong to support the necessary load. This usually requires floors to be at least 25 centimetres thick and be reinforced with steel bars or grids, making them too heavy an option in some cases. Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Technology […]
Read MoreZion Market Research, in publishing a report that looks at the global demand for concrete floors, has forecast considerable growth within the next three years. n 2014, the global market had a valuation $800m (£643m) and this is predicted to reach $1,180m (£948.5m) by 2020, a rise of around 7% a year. The report, titled […]
Read MoreRobert Stock and his wife were married in a Scottish castle, and were so taken by the architecture of the castle that they decided to build their own using insulated concrete. After getting married, the Stocks lived in Connecticut in the United States, and decided that they wanted their own castle built. After considering traditional […]
Read MoreMenswear brand End Clothing recently opened a brand new store in Glasgow, which is located in and old post office and has a number of unique design features. The store, which is End Clothing’s second, was designed by London-based Brinkworth. The firm has turned the old post office space on Ingram Street into a modern […]
Read MoreThe Lund Hagem studio, which is based in Norway’s capital Oslo, has finished work on a ski resort cabin equipped with concrete flooring designed to withstand the tough conditions of high-altitude Norwegian winters. Cabin Geilo, which is situated in the country’s Geilo ski resort, sits 928 metres above sea level, and although this gives the […]
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