If you’ve used PVC as a building material in your projects you may have run into trouble finding a way to make three pipes joint at right angles to each other (like the corner of a box outline).

When you think about biobased materials, you don't typically think of building and construction. However, at the recent Profiles 2015 technology conference on polymer materials in exterior building ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Union plumbers say it's not just the dust from cutting PVC pipe that makes installing it so dangerous. Joe King is a plumbing instructor for the union. He tells the I-Team, "It's the ...

HOUSTON — PVC's prospects are looking up, while PET, polycarbonate and ABS — well, they're still looking for answers. North American PVC is benefiting from access to low-cost, natural gas-based ...

PVC sometimes makes sense for heating and cooling applications — other times, it doesn’t. Before deciding which material works best for your building or installation project, consider how you want ...

The reBENT project, developed by the Research Group 9 of the March 2019-20 Program of the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), explores the interactive relationship between augmented reality (AR) ...

When building a home, one should never assume that everything is going to be done the best possible way or to the highest level affordable. Some upgrades cost very little extra money but pay huge ...

Westlake Pipe & Fittings will build a 190,000-square-foot manufacturing plant for molecular-oriented PVC pipe (PVCO) at its production site in Wichita Falls, Texas. The PVCO pipe offering will enhance ...

Sometimes you just want to build something quickly and easily. Maybe you just need a basic structure for your actual project, or perhaps you want to be able to easily modify the design. Maybe you ...