Plans to alter and extend an Edinburgh pub ahead of its re-opening have been approved, although the original plan to add a restaurant had to be scrapped.

Sonora High School students in teacher Jason Rivera’s construction class are building a retaining wall behind their classroom ...

In this video I show and explain how I built my fire pit from retaining wall blocks with a galvanised round garden bed for the inner rim. I will be using our fire pit to cook with eg spit roast our ...

Concrete blocks were out of budget, so we built two large retaining walls using 6x6 landscape timbers. In this video, I show you how we extended their lifespan with drain lines, proper backfill, and ...

Engineers have created strong, low-cost walls from soil, water, and cardboard, cutting carbon emissions and construction ...

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen said in her September 10 State of the Union address that Europe “must heed the call” of the Baltic states to “build a drone wall”. “This is not an ...

On August 27, local residents sat in folding chairs with TxDOT representatives and Lynda Rife of the public relations firm Rifeline at the Cherrywood Community Center for what TxDOT called a workshop.

Launched in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art (where the original work resides), this LEGO reproduction of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" uses 3D to mimic the master's thick brushstrokes. Van ...

A group of students at the University of Manitoba have been working to preserve a piece of art underneath Portage and Main with a virtual rendition that could live on, regardless of what happens to ...

How does a precast concrete septic-tank root cellar hold up to a harsh New York winter? See how this DIY root cellar performs when temperatures drop. I mentioned building a root cellar as part of my ...

Editor's note: This column was first published Aug. 11, 2017. It has been updated to adjust for inflation. Next time you’re stuck in traffic headed to Seattle, just remind yourself that things were a ...