Every year the world uses 4 billion tonnes of cement to make the concrete that goes into buildings and other infrastructure. It leaves a huge carbon footprint, and comes with other costs too. Civil ...

Last month, on a bitterly cold day, a truck pulled up to a construction site in Boston and poured concrete. It looked and performed like ordinary concrete—but it was the first commercial use of a new ...

Polished concrete is manufactured on site. While other flooring is manufactured in a factory, the result is a product with consistency and known characteristics such as durability, wear ability, stain ...

The new concrete has been created with a look towards the future and as part of wider plans to develop composite materials, capable of being used for a range of applications, and which are stronger, ...

Prewitt emphasizes that precast concrete is manufactured in a controlled environment, a process that allows for precise mixes, accurate molds, and consistent curing. This approach creates structural ...

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In response to ever-increasing pressure on the cement and concrete industry for products with a lower carbon footprint, Lafarge in Canada and LafargeHolcim in the ...

A new way of processing rice husks for use in concrete could lead to a boom in green construction. Rice husks form small cases around edible kernels of rice and are rich in silicon dioxide, an ...

Earlier this month, a 575-sf patch of concrete was poured as part of a public space known as the Paseo, inside One Boston Wharf Road, a 707,000-sf 17-story building in Boston’s Seaport district that ...

Microsoft is purchasing up to 623K tons of cement products from Sublime’s first commercial factory and subsequent full-scale factory over a six- to nine-year period. The transaction enables Microsoft ...