Q. Our home is on a hillside and was built with a walkout basement. The walls are concrete blocks on all sides except the wall on the low side of the hill. That wall is two-by-four wood studs. I have ...

Question: Last winter we installed several foundations for a builder in one development. He called this week asking us to provide inspection and support for a home owner claiming to have moisture ...

Q. We have a 1950s-built home on a sandy lot where most of the homes have cement block basement walls and many have had to be reinforced. Our walls have some cracks, mostly along a horizontal seam. We ...

Cracking is a natural, expected, and accepted behavior of concrete. However, cracks may affect the appearance, function, durability, service life, or more seriously, the structural integrity of the ...

Workers will spend several weeks repairing cracks in an Ohio nuclear plant's concrete walls that protect its reactor. FirstEnergy Corp. says its Davis-Besse nuclear plant along Lake Erie near Toledo ...

Pune's infrastructure is showing signs of strain as temperatures consistently exceed 40 degrees Celsius. Architects and engineers report increased wall and ceiling cracks, particularly in older cement ...