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Choose Concrete For Your Home If you’ve considered hiring a contractor to undertake a new home improvement project for you in the Raleigh, North Carolina area, you’ll probably want to consider concrete for your home, as a construction material. Whether you decide to... Continue Reading

Small Concrete Projects Concrete is used in so many kinds of buildings, homes and other structures that it is difficult to name one that doesn’t use concrete. Concrete can be paired up with wood, stone, steel and glass to make the project even more interesting and... Continue Reading

What is Concrete? What is Portland Cement? Bypassing Egypt and Greece, skip up to the mid 1700s, to the Isle of Portland, off of the county Dorset region of England. This area is on the southwestern peninsula of England in what is officially referred to as an “Area Of... Continue Reading

Concrete Construction Projects The new World Trade Center in New York City looks like a gleaming tower of mirrored glass or shiny metal, depending on the light. In spite of that, a “green” kind of concrete was used to conform to Port Authority codes in New York. Many... Continue Reading

Concrete Art This may not be relevant to building with concrete, but it is about an art piece made of concrete. It had to be built, in a way. German artist, Wolf Vostell, decided to build a concrete car around a 1957 Cadillac de Ville and parked it in the River North area of... Continue Reading

Amazing New Concrete Roughly 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians used an early form of concrete to build their magnificent pyramids. Today, concrete is the single most widely used material in the world. Producing over 2 billion tons every year! As technology has evolved, so have the... Continue Reading