Today, leading international composite building materials manufacturer, Eva-Last announced its acquisition of Fortress Deck Products, marking the official opening of Eva-Last Americas in Plano, Texas.

Orlando, Fla. — After 20 years as decking, composite wood boards by Fiberon are finding new uses as cladding for rain screen systems, which help walls manage moisture. The New London, N.C.-based ...

The boardwalk is a quick and easy build. The flexible composite decking will follow slight contours in your yard and can span roots and rocks that would otherwise require excavation. You may have to ...

Composite decking continues to be a significant segment of the residential outdoor construction market, and this service expansion allows us to offer additional material options for property owners ...

In grade schools long ago, many people had to build something out of toothpicks or Popsicle sticks—a house, a bridge, a boat. It might have been an art project or a science experiment, but the idea ...

Buildings and production of the materials used in their construction emit a lot of carbon dioxide (CO 2), a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming and climate change. But storing CO ...

This year, the Société Française des Ingénieurs des Plastiques (SFIP) organised the 4th edition of its conference dedicated to the building industry on the Champs-sur-Marne campus (France), just a ...

Based on the ITECH Research Demonstrator (top left), The University of Stuttgart Institute for Textile and Fiber Technologies (ITFT) will exhibit its “Adaptive FRP elements for facade shading” ...

Low computational efficiency and non-linearity behaviour make the simulation of the overall building structure problematic to attain with a single dynamic or static method. Thus, this paper uses a ...

Aedas have recently unveiled this design for a serviced apartment building in Hong Kong. Situated in the neighborhood of Mongkok, one of the most densely populated areas on the planet, the building is ...