Milliken recently debuted a flexible fabric that allows for concrete installations on slopes, in water, and in other hard to reach places—without the need for molds or mixing. Concrete Cloth features ...

An inflatable concrete building sounds a bit ludicrous - until you see the seemingly-magical construction of a Concrete Canvas shelter. Concrete Canvas, a UK company, has created shelters that combine ...

When a disaster strikes, it’s often difficult to get shelters up in time for displaced residents. Enter Concrete Canvas’s new Concrete Cloth, a durable waterproof building material made of cement ...

Need a semi permanent structure? Well this concrete cloth by UK-based company Concrete Canvas’s has just won material of the year 2009. Once the cloth shelter is erected the hardening process is then ...

Looking to build a man-cave resembling something out of the Applied Sciences section of Wayne Enterprises? While undoubtedly Batman’s bivouac of choice, the Concrete Canvas Shelter (~$30,000+) is also ...

(New York City) The medium was the message on February 4th when the global materials consultancy Material ConneXion hosted a celebration for the winner and 11 honorable mentions of its first annual ...

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CLOTH from Treforest is helping keep British military casualties in Afghanistan to a minimum. “Concrete Cloth” as it’s known is also saving the lives of troops and refugees in war zones across the ...

German designer Florian Schmid experiments with the comfort of cloth and the cool, harness of concrete in a new series of stools. Concrete canvas, essentially cloth impregnated with concrete, hardens ...

Take the Concrete Canvas, add air and water, wait twelve hours, and you have a portable building that offers more structural stability than a tent at half the cost of existing portable buildings.