Normally, when rain water lands on concrete, it pools or runs downhill until it reaches a storm drain that then pipes the water far→

Whether you own a store that is in need of a wine isle makeover or you want to turn your basement into a small→

TechCrunch: Here’s just a short list of some things that will transformed in the next few years as the iPad delivers computing to the→

Yahoo News: An engineering professor, Behrokh Khoshnevis, at the University of Southern California, is really thinking big: He has figured out a way to→

Carpe Diem: In another sign of housing market recovery, framing lumber prices have been rising lately and reached $347 per 1,000 board feet last→

A Southern California homebuilder is now building houses with a smaller home nested inside of the larger one. Lennar designers and researchers and an→

Cassandra Daily: Lowe’s Home Improvement recently launched Iris, a cloud-based “smart home” system for mobile device owners who want to monitor their homes’ security.→

The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard has released a report showing that the remodeling industry is beginning to recover from the worst→

TwinCities.com: Jeni Christopher really digs heavy machinery. How much? Christopher, a St. Paul mother of two young children, passed up a last-minute pedicure and→

Yesterday I mentioned that the Pirate Bay is now offering physical items for download. The digital files can be loaded into 3D printers and→

What could you accomplish in fifteen days? In only 360 hours the Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, built a 30-story tall hotel.

When the construction boom in Ireland went bust, two Irish carpenters, Ronan Diggin and Noel O’sullivan found themselves without a job. Lucky for them,→

Maisonia Deal is a group buying program (think Groupon) for building a new home in France. By negotiating on behalf of groups of individuals→

Rebecca Smith drew the attention of workers as she walked through a construction site 20 years ago. What is a woman doing on a→

If a contractor wants to move quickly while working on a house, it helps to have a list of tricks up your sleeve. Patrick→

Thomas Stewart has been in the construction business for nearly 30 years, and it was during his time in the business that inspired him→

Dig This, the construction theme park business I wrote about earlier today and first mentioned in August 2008 is now offering franchises. According to→

In New York, the most glaring signs of the Great Recession are the stalled construction sites littering the city–boarded up, dusty, and desolate eyesores.→

According to Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine’s editor-in-chief, atoms are the new bits — and because of this we are on the brink of the→

“Cardboard Mechanics” is an art installation created by four students at the Utrecht School of Art and Technology in the Netherlands. It is a→