Cement built the modern world, but it also quietly helped heat the planet. As researchers race to cut emissions from ...

Inspired by Roman concrete and modern bioengineering, self-healing materials could cut emissions and transform how infrastructure is built and maintained ...

Questions and answers with key voices in the field of chemistry. As human populations grow, the built environment expands alongside them, with skyscrapers and multiplexes towering over urban corridors ...

Yes, mollusks. Mollusks have a special composite material lining their inner shell, known as “nacre.” Nacre, also known as ...

Shimizu introduces a spray-based 3D concrete printing system for reinforced structures using robotics and simulation.

Purdue University is operating a new laboratory to help the nation deal with aging highways, bridges and other infrastructure by developing more durable and environmentally friendly concrete. The ...

In hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are putting a new twist on an old trick for improving the durability ...

Announced in mid-August, Gerdau Graphene, released a new admixture for concrete called NanoCONS, "enabling concrete producers to leverage the unprecedented physical properties of graphene to improve ...