San Marcos will spend $340,000 to study whether it's feasible to repair Cape’s Dam, an aging structure on the San Marcos River that has been the subject of community debate for the past decade. The ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Fallingwater house is under threat from the effects of weather and moisture. The World Heritage-listed home sits above a waterfall in the Appalachian Mountains in ...

One of their innovative projects involves creating concrete suitable for construction on Mars without using water — a critical resource that is scarce on the planet. Listen to Story Most space ...

The Ship Structure Committee has recently issued two new reports on the following topics: Reduction of S-N Curves for Ship Structural Details, and Underwater Repair Procedures for Ship Hulls ...

DDR is a fundamental mechanism activated in response to DNA lesions. This mechanism consists of pathways that include DNA damage recognition and repair (e.g., mismatch repair, base excision repair, ...

For towns with aging concrete water tanks, the dilemma is usually the same: repair or build new. In repair, re-waterproofing can buy another decade or two so they can budget for the new expense.

The most common mistakes in foundation and concrete repair happen at the get-go, when the problem itself isn’t analyzed as a whole. The three most common steps missed or overlooked in the repair ...