Giant, white blocks can be seen by drivers on Highway 101 near Fairview Avenue in Goleta, and the polystyrene segments will be used to support a new highway offramp being built in the area. The ...

Mamaroneck-based construction company, Murphy Brothers have taken on building a house with crisp white blocks made of Styrofoam-like material that they say is very durable and a great insulation.

In the second-largest application ever of its kind, hundreds of truckloads of polystyrene block are helping expedite an expansion of Salt Lake City’s Transit Express (TRAX) light-rail system. The ...

Huge polystyrene blocks will be used to fill in a major city roundabout. A £4.3m scheme to improve Cowgate roundabout in Newcastle began in January creating long tail backs for drivers. Now Newcastle ...

By Yaw Oppong OduroStyrofoam is a trademarked brand name owned by the Dow Chemical Company, though in everyday usage especially across Ghana and much of West Africa, it has become the catch-all term ...

But Robert insists builders are failing to ‘tie down’ the waste products allowing bags to pop open and materials to fly off onto the roads.And as a council tenant, Robert has seen first hand workmen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As storms have raged across some parts of the country, locals in one area went outside to find their streets covered in mounds of ...

More than half of council tower blocks in Bristol have flammable polystyrene cladding which will be removed after a fire last month. Removing the cladding could take a decade and fire safety experts ...

A money-saving couple from Somerset are building their own house on a budget - using polystyrene blocks instead of bricks. Hannah Bird and husband Charlie, a professional golfer, bought the 0.25 acre ...