The dome, also known as “The Tomb,” was meant as a temporary solution, but it has now become a long-term concern. In 2019, ...

Salina? Norbert and Marlene Hermes have lived in a concrete dome for the last 23 years and have never regretted it. The dome not only has saved them money in energy costs, but it is so solidly ...

which to this day forms the largest unreinforced concrete dome in existence at 43.3 meters diameter, and is in excellent condition despite being being nearly 1,900 years old. Even as the Roman ...

It will take a lot of iron chains and money to keep your heavy concrete dome from collapsing. Besides, there's an easier -- and less risky -- way to build a dome this tall today. Try again!

Carving holes is a great way to lighten a dome -- but the governor won't be happy with your design. Around 500 A.D., ancient engineers realized that a dome could be made of a circular ring of ...

The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. Dubbed "the tomb", it holds tonnes of radioactive ...

Even today, one of their structures – the Pantheon, still intact and nearly 2,000 years old – holds the record for the ...

Cath Wild built Australia’s first council-approved aircrete house using 6000 bricks she moulded herself, and estimates the ...

Even some of the repairs had to be, er, repaired. We can, if we want, contrast these problems with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome, the crowning feature of a much-admired building.

It is a three-part system that's built up on-site. The base is a flexible fiberglass-reinforced mat studded with polymer-modified concrete domes. The mat gets overcoated with sand for slip ...

Domes – hemispherical, onion-shaped, sharpened, oval, resting on a drum or on pendentives, adorned with a roof lantern, made of stone, brick, steel or reinforced concrete. Although domes are ...