Privacy, safety, security—these are only a few of the reasons that homeowners build solid, durable garden walls. Although it’s immensely satisfying to construct ...

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, ...

For two decades, motor vehicle infractions, code violations, citations for public drunkenness or fighting and other matters have been resolved in a plain-looking cinder-block building across the ...

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 ...

In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all government construction works by June 2025. Aimed at preventing the loss of farmland and the ...

UNION SQUARE The cinder blocks broke away from an 11-story building under construction on West 14 Street just after 9 a.m. The blocks crashed through the roof of a neighboring office building, ...