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 ...

Building buttresses to support your heavy dome is a good solution -- but it won't work here. When the magnificent Turkish cathedral Hagia Sophia collapsed only 20 years after it was built ...

Rosatom workers have completed the operation to concrete the domed part of the outer containment (NZO – Naruzhnoi Zatsitnoi ...

Concreting of the outer containment dome of the first unit at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant took 104 days, with 3511 ...

The building is topped with an oval dome with a skylight on top. The inside of the dome features sunken panels, and all the dome construction is based on a cornice adorned with ancient art-styled ...

and colossal buildings. Many of these structures have remained intact for more than 2,000 years, making them exponentially longer-lasting than modern-day concrete constructions that deteriorate within ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.

building the Pantheon in Rome in 113-125AD, with its 43m-diameter free-standing concrete dome the largest in the world. But the concrete used in our modern-built environment owes much of its make ...

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only ... which to this day forms the largest unreinforced concrete dome in existence at 43.3 meters diameter, and ...

a nearly 2,000-year-old building that still holds the record for the world’s largest dome of unreinforced concrete. For decades, scientists have been trying to figure out the secret to Roman ...