In the early 1990s Barry Herbert, then president of Otsego, Mich.,-based concrete contractor Herbert Construction Co., learned an alternative method for forming footings. Barry spoke with Ron Colvin, ...

Contractors regularly look at the basic U.S. residential concrete foundation as being a three-day process. Excavation, footing forming and concrete placement on day one; wall forming and concrete ...

Read the original version in Portuguese here. Foundations are certainly not the structural elements on which architects spend the most time during the design process. Since they are typically ...

Q. I'm thinking of a career in new home construction and know very little. One of the things I don't fully understand is the foundation footer. I'm also stumped about piers. What's the real purpose of ...

This DIY Concrete Deck Footer Project was absolutely brutal... Not because any part of the deck footing construction project is that difficult, but because we had to pour TWENTY-THREE of them.. In ...