From residential homes and skyscrapers to art sculptures and footpaths, concrete is everywhere you look and it's difficult to imagine the modern world without it. As the most widely-used human-made ...

Engineers at RMIT University in Australia have converted low-grade clay into a high-performance cement supplement, opening a potential new market in sustainable construction materials. The global ...

For more than a decade, New Rochelle, New York-based Urban Mining Industries has been advancing a new use for recycled glass in the form of Pozzotive, a ground glass pozzolan used in concrete ...

Boosters for a more sustainably produced cement, which slashes greenhouse gas emissions up to 40% compared to ordinary portland cement production, say the material, called limestone calcined clay ...

Concrete builds our world, but its core ingredient, cement, comes with a heavy environmental cost. It’s responsible for a total of 8% of global CO₂ emissions. The industry is actively researching and ...

Australian engineers have converted low-grade clay into a high-performance cement supplement, opening a potential new market in sustainable construction materials Engineers at RMIT University in ...

The clay-based cement laboratory at Meru University of Science and Technology main campus at Nchiru in Meru County. [Phares Mutembei, Standard] Scientists at Meru University of Science and Technology ...

Given its status as the most widely-used manufactured material on Earth, reducing the huge environmental footprint of concrete would have significant consequences for the health of the planet.

What it is: Techniques for suppressing the chemical reaction between glass and cement that has kept glass from being used as an aggregate in concrete. The market: Local governments, commercial ...