Professionals and business people in the concrete and construction industries know what it is like to be used as a whipping boy by advocates for the environment. Cement alone is responsible for more ...

Every day, Americans travel on roads, bridges and highways without considering the safety or reliability of these structures. Yet much of the transportation infrastructure in the U.S. is outdated, ...

Icy roads are a big problem in winter months all over the world. Sometimes spreading salt can help mitigate dangerous conditions, but the downside is that salt is harmful to both roads and tires. That ...

New CoolCure Concrete Admixture converts typical cement into a Type IV, low-heat cement resulting in up to 80% less heat and 50% greater strength. CoolCure is a revolutionary new technology that ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Big Tech is throwing money at one of the trickiest climate problems to solve: cleaning up carbon dioxide ...

A new material made of seawater, carbon dioxide, and electricity could give the construction industry a much-needed climate upgrade. Developed by researchers at Northwestern University, the paste-like ...

Las Vegas hosted its first in-person convention this week since the pandemic, World of Concrete, which normally attracts some 60,000 engineers, architects, masons and contractors. Not quite a full ...

Led by Professor Masoud Akbarzadeh, the Penn group has developed Diamanti, a 3D-printed structural system that uses both ...

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

Concrete is a material used everywhere on Earth due to its strength and relatively light weight. That makes it a useful candidate for a material to build structures in space as well. But you can’t ...