When designing a loadbearing masonry structure, certain rules of thumb can help building designers, owners and contractors estimate typical loads and sizes that walls and columns experience. Keeping ...

We've all seen it: The brick or stone wall where the mortar is all powdery, cracked or non-existent. "Mortar can disintegrate over time because of weather as a result of the freeze-thaw cycles. The ...

Rising damp is a critical deterioration process in both historic and modern masonry structures, driven primarily by the capillary uptake of groundwater through porous building materials. This ...

When one hears the term masonry architecture, digital fabrication and automated construction processes are probably not the first ideas to come to mind. By its very nature, the architecture produced ...

The Washoe Smelter stack in Anaconda is the tallest free-standing masonry structure in the world. Yes, it is. Carrie Johnson laid to rest any technicalities and competition with the Washington ...