Professionals and business people in the concrete and construction industries know what it is like to be used as a whipping boy by advocates for the environment. Cement alone is responsible for more ...

The concept and practice of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been around for a while, but the impact in the modern concrete construction site has only broken the surface. Project managers and foremen ...

Masoud Akbarzadeh (left), a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, is working with students to design concrete structures that use as little concrete as possible while remaining ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Big Tech is throwing money at one of the trickiest climate problems to solve: cleaning up carbon dioxide ...

A new material made of seawater, carbon dioxide, and electricity could give the construction industry a much-needed climate upgrade. Developed by researchers at Northwestern University, the paste-like ...

Control of concrete strength and maturity in large-scale projects has traditionally been recorded and measured manually. Nowadays, there are new technologies that allow builders to melt sensors ...

What do the Hoover Dam, the Sydney Opera House, the Great Wall of China and the Pantheon have in common? They’re all examples of incredible, ambitious concrete construction. But our most widely used ...

THE ROMANS perfected concrete, and their legacy still stands in the form of the magnificent roof of the Pantheon, the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. Since it was completed in around 125AD ...