Concrete: we can’t live with it, can’t live without it. A combination of cement, water and ground rock or sand, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined construction ...

The concrete breakwaters designed to protect people from the consequences of global warming also contribute to it. It’s time to start using different materials. Japanese authorities, wanting to better ...

We've heard how 3D-printed concrete buildings can be constructed quickly and easily, but could there be an even faster and simpler method? According to American inventor Alex Bell, there most ...

Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, but it comes at a huge environmental cost. Engineers in Japan have developed a new technique to make concrete by recycling waste ...

Slow but steady growth in the use of 3D-printed concrete in construction brings in new firms and users, as the nascent industry finds the right market niches for a continually evolving technology As ...

Mexico-based fabrication and construction company FAME Building System is bringing their proprietary PVC and concrete building system to Florida, with an eye toward taking over the burgeoning ...

The site of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. Image courtesy of NIST. Learn about the role material testing labs play in investigating concrete structural failures ...

Jay Sanjayan works for Swinburne University of Technology. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council for 3D Concrete Printing work. He is a Member of the Conrete Institute of Australia.

Modern building and urban infrastructure construction are among the largest consumers of raw materials globally, with cement and concrete manufacturing alone responsible for approximately 8% of the ...

The Vista Tower construction includes a low-rise structure and three towers and is located alongside the Chicago River in the heart of downtown Chicago only a couple blocks away from Lake Michigan.