“It’s very quiet. No drafts,” says Gene Suwanski of what it is like to live in a concrete home. “We hardly hear the storms.” The Suwanskis’ two-story contemporary-style home was built 20 years ago as ...

In the early 1990s Barry Herbert, then president of Otsego, Mich.,-based concrete contractor Herbert Construction Co., learned an alternative method for forming footings. Barry spoke with Ron Colvin, ...