Before you start on your first concrete project, take some time to learn the best way to mix concrete. This will ensure that your project doesn’t crumble when you take it out of the form and that it ...

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Even though I'm the editor for Asphalt Contractor and Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction, which largely focuses on the blacktop side of the industry, concrete obviously plays a big role. I know ...

The world gets a little greyer every year. According to a paper published in 2014 concrete—an aggregate material made by mixing cement, sand and gravel—is the second-most consumed substance in the ...

It’s a major contributor to climate change—the way buildings and roads are made with concrete. It’s also a problem that’s growing as more of the world develops. So the race has been on to find ...

UMD Professor of Civil Engineering Andrea Schokker is researching ways to make concrete more sustainable. She is a structural engineer who focuses on concrete in buildings and bridges. Schokker says ...

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The firm is using electrochemistry to reinvent one of the world’s dirtiest materials. Explore the 2023 list of 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch. Sublime Systems has invented a new way to make cement ...

Concrete is everywhere: in buildings, roads, sidewalks, bridges and foundations for almost every structure imaginable. We make more concrete than we do any other material on Earth, and that volume is ...