Graphene Flagship partners the University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano, CNR, NEST, Italcementi HeidelbergCement Group, the Israel Institute of Technology, Eindhoven University of Techno... Read more
A pedestrian bridge designed by Deakin University researchers for a North Geelong park will use a new type of reinforced concrete that doesn’t need any maintenance. The bridge over Cow... Read more
Rice engineers use byproduct from coal-fired power plants to replace Portland cement Rice University engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coa... Read more
Binghamton University researchers have been working on a self-healing concrete that uses a specific type of fungi as a healing agent. America’s crumbling infrastructure has been a topic of o... Read more
A new greener, stronger and more durable concrete that is made using the wonder-material graphene could revolutionise the construction industry. Experts from the University of Exeter have de... Read more
Adding bits of irradiated plastic water bottles could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions. Discarded plastic bottles could one day be used to build stronger, more flexible concrete struct... Read more
New concrete to reduce time needed for road works by more than half Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) scientists from the NTU-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre (... Read more
Researchers look to bones and shells as blueprints for stronger, more durable concrete. Researchers at MIT are seeking to redesign concrete — the most widely used human-made material in the... Read more
The new building material could transform polluting emissions into a valuable resource Imagine a world with little or no concrete. Would that even be possible? After all, concrete is everywh... Read more
A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Institute as snowflakes begin parachuting toward Omaha on a frigid afternoon in late December. The sn... Read more
Though 3D printing technology is still relatively new, it may become an important tool for architects and the construction industry, as highlighted by projects like the recent 3D-printing of... Read more
