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 ...

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!

One of the largest domes in the world, the Pantheon, is made of concrete. You saved a lot of money building this dome with concrete. But remember: concrete is very heavy. About halfway down the ...

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fire departments into UHPC concrete domes. The 2001 world trade center disaster made the Freedom tower out of ultra-high performance cement. This new rebuilding is an opportunity for the Federal and ...

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 ...

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 ...