In addition to the concrete, each monolith contains steel reinforcement and a host of embedded fabricated metal items that ...

Wood has been the concrete contractor’s formwork of choice for years. It’s relatively inexpensive and easy to understand, light weight, can be easily cut to size, and easy to replace and ...

In vertical formwork, what a lot of people picture is the form of a wall or a column. But on a high-rise, you need to build one floor, then the next. All the equipment you have to build one floor ...

The idea began when doctoral student Lotte Scheder-Bieschin developed Unfold Form, a foldable, reusable formwork system that makes laying concrete much easier. Inspired by origami and natural ...

Design studio Niceworkshop has created furniture for recycling brand Format made from aluminium formwork used for pouring the concrete on large-scale buildings, which is on show at Milan design week.