Concrete — though it seems conterintuitive — floats. And floats well. This summer, in the waters off western France, this rock-hard material — used for megaprojects from the ancient Roman dome of the ...

British architecture studio Grimshaw and Dutch manufacturers Concrete Valley are developing Modular Water Dwellings that could be built in places at risk from climate change. The floating houses would ...

Although almost ten years have passed since the first full-scale floating wind turbine was installed (Hywind, off Norway), no floating wind farms have yet been constructed and no large-scale floating ...

1. Statoil's Hywind floating windfarm will employ cylindrical floats constructed out of steel and sand-water balast. They will share the same power lines and be tethered to the ocean floor. (Image ...

Panaji: Six months after Union shipping minister Nitin Gadkari proposed the idea of floating jetties to the state government, Marinetek India has tied-up with the Alcon Anil Counto Enterprises to ...

Modular construction is attracting more and more people (even young people, as we saw this week). However, some still reject it as unstable, a myth that we will demolish with this concrete prefab ...