Concrete, the second-most-used material on Earth, generates about four times more CO2 emissions than planes. MIDDLESBROUGH, England — Behold one of the world’s greatest slag heaps: A towering landfill ...

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Picture the Pantheon in Rome. Considering that it was built in CE 128, it has held together remarkably well under the footsteps of hundreds of millions of visitors over the centuries. If the ancient ...

Scientists have developed an environment friendly version of building concrete called green-mix concrete. Complementing the Government of Malaysia's efforts to encourage the use of environmentally ...

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 ...

It can be a challenge both to quantify and reduce the carbon emissions coming from essential building materials, either witew practices or new products.

Scientists at the University of Sharjah report that they have successfully transformed desert sand into construction bricks ...

Scientists in Germany have successfully turned urine into bio-concrete, as part of a project aiming to revolutionize sustainable construction by creating building materials from waste. The research ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Concrete is not glamorous. It is the workhorse of building materials: versatile, durable, and almost universally ubiquitous, with 30 billion tons of concrete produced every year ...

Inspired by the material that makes up oyster and abalone shells, engineers have created a new cement composite that is 17 times more crack-resistant than standard cement and 19 times more able to ...

Summit Materials, an acquisition platform in the building materials market, has acquired Continental Cement Co., a supplier of cement to customers in Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. No financial terms ...

Dublin, June 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Asia-Pacific Fiber Cement Boards Market, By Country, Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2020-2030F" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's ...