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 ...

A research team at The University of Texas at Arlington is using giant lightweight geofoam blocks to bolster the earth beneath roads and bridges and slow down the settling of roadways and bridges.

To the untrained eye, those big white blocks lined up along Seventh Street North at the Interchange transit hub project site in downtown Minneapolis may look like Styrofoam packing for a humongous ...

Lightweight and stiff as a board, a plastic foam material is being used to protect Utah’s natural gas pipelines from rupturing during earthquakes. Lightweight and stiff as a board, a plastic foam ...

Crushed rock, soil, sand, and other earthen fills have largely dominated the construction industry for ages. The familiar, ubiquitous, and inexpensive nature of these materials has made them the ...

Geofoam, typically comprising expanded polystyrene (EPS) blocks, has emerged as a versatile geotechnical material for mitigating earth pressures on engineered structures. Its lightweight and highly ...

(CBS4) – Drivers along U.S. 36 in Westminster now have some relief; lanes are back open after over-saturated soil caused a giant sinkhole on the highway. A large part of the repairs were completed ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4) - Crews have finished installing 6,000 geofoam blocks on eastbound U.S. 36. Repairs to the road are expected to be finished by early October. The Colorado Department of ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced last week that they have completed the installation of all 6,000 blocks of geofoam used to rebuild US 36. The eastbound ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Construction crews have installed 2,500 of the 6,000 blocks of geofoam needed to move repair work forward on US 36, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced in a ...

A research team at The University of Texas at Arlington is using giant lightweight geofoam blocks to bolster the earth beneath roads and bridges and slow down the settling of roadways and bridges.