The stone building at Sixth Avenue and Moccasin Creek was born from South Dakota’s prairie. Those are field stones from land east of Groton, used to build its walls in the 1940s. I didn’t really ...

Structural engineer Webb Yates has completed its first structural stone building for a commercial developer. Thomas Lane reports on the firm's 20-year mission to establish stone as a sustainable alter ...

Stone columns represent a pivotal ground improvement technique aimed at enhancing the load‐bearing capacity and reducing settlement in soft soil conditions. Traditionally, this method involves the ...

If you hear the pitch for building with stone, it really is a no-brainer. The material is solid, consistent, sustainable and abundant. It is not a marketing spiel either; the numbers back it up.

Keywords: Liquefaction remediation. Silty soils. Dynamic compaction (DC). Vibro-stone columns (SC). Hazard mitigation. Saturated sands. Non-plastic sands ...