Adding tiles over a concrete floor can give a room a new look. However, it's important to follow several steps to ensure your ...

Concrete flooring is affordable and surprisingly versatile, even allowing you to customize it in many ways with DIY techniques. Although installing it in your bathroom could be a big mistake, the ...

The quest for inexpensive joint free floors to minimize maintenance problems with floors as they age is an on-going effort by many companies. In the 1980s in Europe engineer Xavier Destree placed high ...

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 ...

As critical infrastructure adapts to handle advancements in robotics, logistics and IT loads, durable concrete becomes ...

When you initially think of concrete floors, you probably think “cold”, “prison-like” or “industrial”. But with its ability to take on colour and a polished sheen, coupled with its many benefits, ...

According to the United Nations Environment Programme, the buildings and construction sector accounted for 37% of global energy and process related CO2 emissions in 2021. As a result, the UN called ...

When Patrick Egan came to redo the flooring of his Tucson ranch home, polished concrete was the last thing on his mind. The 1960s home had a brick floor, and Egan's thought was to add travertine tile ...

Q. Our home is 12 years old. Almost from the start the basement floor started getting black blotches which just got larger and larger. In the center it begins to get white and chalky. I have had ...