Architectural Digest travels to Scottsdale, Arizona, to tour Taliesin West—Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic desert laboratory and ...

When they used the new "thermoactivated" cement to make new concrete, they found that it was simply not strong enough due to the fact that it was more porous than regular cement. The solution ...

Concrete is the backbone of modern construction, but its heavy environmental footprint has long been a challenge for environmentalists. Cement production ... vaulted concrete design that achieves ...

Cement is the binder that makes concrete — and concrete is the second-most-used commodity on Earth after water. If humans progressed from the Stone to Bronze to Iron ages, it is fair to say that ...

But some companies have another option, which could be a win-win for the climate and the cement industry: creating carbon-negative building materials by storing excess carbon dioxide in concrete.

Human femurs have inspired a new cement-based construction material that is multiple times stronger than traditional concrete. But the bone-like design doesn’t get its resiliency from any new ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Concrete has long been one of the most common construction materials, and you can see ...

But by replacing lime with used cement, the end product is recycled cement that can be used to make new concrete. The cement recycling method developed by the Cambridge researchers, reported in ...

Yet others want to replace cement—the adhesive component of concrete—with lower-carbon alternatives. Portland cement makes up 12% of concrete but accounts for 85% of its carbon emissions.

In addition, cement production, a key component of concrete, accounts for 8% of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions. Moreover, sand mining, largely unregulated, poses severe threats to river and ...

CRH said it will purchase a portfolio of cement and ready-mixed concrete assets in Texas from Martin Marietta Materials for $2.1 billion. The Irish building-materials supplier said the assets ...