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 ...
New Atlas

Algae-based blocks could make for a more sustainable building

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, ...
The Business Journals

Rebuilding for the climate: Concrete block as a sustainable solution for Puget Sound

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. As climate change reshapes life in Puget Sound, from ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

New Longview developments feature concrete block construction

After a year of apartment life, Monica Hunt revels in the quiet space she’s found in the duplex she recently moved into in central Longview. She moved to Longview with her job with Christus Good ...
ABC7

Construction worker killed when wall collapses at site in Pacoima

PACOIMA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- One worker was killed and another injured when a wall collapsed at a construction site in Pacoima. The cinder-block wall collapsed just before 9 a.m. in the 10500 block ...
The New York Times

Contractors Face Homicide Charges After Worker Was Crushed by Cinder Blocks

Segundo Manuel Huerta Mayancela, an immigrant from Ecuador, died in 2019 as he worked in a Bronx building surrounded by relatives. By Liset Cruz Nearly four years after a Bronx building collapse ...