Knocking down internal walls is often top of the list of jobs when renovating a house. And although there's no doubting the transformative effect it can have on dark and gloomy rooms, it's not a job ...

Briefly, structural masonry is a construction system in which the walls of the building perform a structural function, using masonry units arranged in a way that is self-supporting and load-bearing.

A Germany-based construction engineering company says it has constructed the world’s first load-bearing concrete walls built with a 3D printer. Züblin built a new warehouse from a single 3D print for ...

Check the building plans. Without having seen the building I can't really make an educated guess, but it wouldnt surprise if some of the interior walls are load bearing. The walls that ARE load ...

If you’re feeling a bit cramped or your home is compartmentalized, creating a passthrough between the living room and kitchen for example, will create the feeling of more space and will bring more ...

However, this really depends on the age of the house. Older, solid walls can be thicker ... While the outer skin of the cavity wall is largely decorative, the inner skin is load-bearing and, as with ...

Insulating concrete forms have a long history of success in low-rise buildings, but now Building Teams are specifying ICFs for mid- and high-rise structures—more than 100 feet. ICF walls can be used ...

The collapse, which left three people dead, happened after bricks were removed and a load-bearing wall was not properly supported, a report said. By Julie Bosman The partial collapse of a six-story ...