Concrete — though it seems conterintuitive — floats. And floats well. This summer, in the waters off western France, this rock-hard material — used for megaprojects from the ancient Roman dome of the ...

Although almost ten years have passed since the first full-scale floating wind turbine was installed (Hywind, off Norway), no floating wind farms have yet been constructed and no large-scale floating ...

1. Statoil's Hywind floating windfarm will employ cylindrical floats constructed out of steel and sand-water balast. They will share the same power lines and be tethered to the ocean floor. (Image ...

Some buildings aim to stand out as much as possible, rising from the Earth like alien spaceships and reveling in all their artificiality. Others use clever forms of camouflage to virtually disappear ...

Sperra Seaworks Limited, in partnership with Bardex Energy UK Limited, has been awarded USD$1.35 million (£1 million) in ...

Panaji: Six months after Union shipping minister Nitin Gadkari proposed the idea of floating jetties to the state government, Marinetek India has tied-up with the Alcon Anil Counto Enterprises to ...

Modular construction is attracting more and more people (even young people, as we saw this week). However, some still reject it as unstable, a myth that we will demolish with this concrete prefab ...

Experts are professionals who are curious and never stop learning. To better understand how breakwaters function and to perfect their products, SF Marina's team collaborates with professional research ...

Sound Transit has discovered another construction problem with its future Seattle-to-Bellevue light-rail extension, this time on the I-90 floating bridge deck. Inspections in late March found three ...