Concrete & Masonry

18 Videos, articles, and animations showing you how to get through Section 1 of the Energy Star Thermal Bypass Checklist: continuity between the air barrier system and the thermal envelope.

Yup—just drill a hole, add a piece of copper wire and drive the screw home

A Mashup of traditional architecture, modern technology, and good old gravity

A snowball effect of physics vs. physical structures: water carries salt to the surface of masonry, which crystallizes and can blow apart its masonry host.

Good amortization doesn't always involve using a building forever—sometimes, it means recapturing the space when the building corrodes

Just because they call it mud doesn’t mean it behaves like dirt and water

Jack Ellis is a brick layer. His work starts at 8 in the morning. Jack is working on the third floor, so he climbs the—what appears to be homemade—ladder up to get on the scaffolding.

Drill, Drive, DONE—Finally a concrete anchor that works

The iconic brick layer’s trowel had found a new use.