The modern world is built with concrete. Humans use more concrete annually than any other material besides water. Yet cement, the key component of concrete, is the source of as much as 10% of all ...

Researchers found that replacing up to 5% of Portland cement with eggshell powder may improve mortar strength while ...

Turner Construction Co. and local ready-mix producer Boston Sand & Gravel report they are the first to place concrete with Sublime Systems' zero-carbon cement in a mud mat in an industrial project in ...

It's easy to confuse cement and concrete when talking about them, but they are two different materials serving very different ...

A photobioreactor, which looks like a large vat of blue liquid with pink light shining, at Prometheus Materials. Stimulated by light, microbes in this bioreactor multiply and react carbon dioxide with ...

The valorization of industrial by-products in cementitious materials offers a viable pathway for reducing the environmental impact of concrete production. Limestone fines (LF) are commonly used as a ...

3D printing looks set to become very important in architecture, but we've yet to see exactly how the future of large-scale click-and-print construction will play out. A potential step forward comes ...

Nobody knows who did it first, or when. But by the 2nd or 3rd century BCE, Roman engineers were routinely grinding up burnt limestone and volcanic ash to make caementum: a powder that would start to ...