A recent project for the University of Alabama's Department of Science and Engineering exemplifies Birdwell & Associates' confidence, ambition and talents in concrete construction. The floor was small ...

Newly discovered documents from 1996 have shed a light on the pool deck at the center of the recent building collapse in Surfside, Florida. According to the 25-year-old construction permit, the ...

Concrete column specimens from Champlain Towers South are stored in a warehouse space where investigators can conduct material and structural testing. Compounding factors reduced the margins of safety ...

Champlain Towers South’s pool deck construction differed from design requirements, federal investigators determined, adding to mounting indicators that this area was the root of the deadly collapse.

In what’s become almost an annual rite of passage, concrete contractors at various industry conferences show me “war wounds” that have resulted from wire mesh and rebar (reinforcement bars). They wear ...

Something is rotten — or at least cracking — outside the house of Canal Dock. That something is the concrete topping slab that covers the deck, the pier, and the promenade that surround the city’s ...