When most people think of canoes, they probably envision a standard wooden canoe floating peacefully in a lake. However, students at BYU have done the impossible and built something completely ...

NEW ORLEANS — If you throw a block of concrete in a bayou, it will sink. So how is it that hundreds of engineering students from around the Southeast managed to not just build, but race canoes made of ...

Concrete — though it seems conterintuitive — floats. And floats well. This summer, in the waters off western France, this rock-hard material — used for megaprojects from the ancient Roman dome of the ...

When McCormick junior Vivian Reilly attended McCormick’s organization fair her freshman year, one booth caught her eye: Concrete Canoe. “I saw this tank of water with floating cylinders of concrete, ...

1. Statoil's Hywind floating windfarm will employ cylindrical floats constructed out of steel and sand-water balast. They will share the same power lines and be tethered to the ocean floor. (Image ...