Robby Brown is the founder of Pinnacle Foundation Repair, a foundation repair company that has been serving Texas for over 20 years. Commercial foundations support a heavy load and have to be ...

In construction, “a firm foundation” is no cliche. It’s a matter of tradition, good technique and honoring the building codes. How well the structure will stand–and stand up to time and ...

Question: Do you know if it states in the IRC code that a “J”-bar must be poured in the footing if the wall requires vertical reinforcing. I have a meeting with an inspector tomorrow to discuss code ...

The technical challenge was to restabilise the building. This followed the discovery that the brick corbels had been sheared off the bottom of the party walls in an earlier enlargement of the basement ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. Part one appeared in the Jan. 6 edition of The Courant. In the early 2000s, when the concrete-crumbling pyrrhotite plague first showed up in homes in ...

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has completed the pouring of seven wind turbine foundations using concrete made entirely without clinker. The projects took place from June to August 2025 at sites ...