Cleaning up the construction material that is both building our way of life, while contributing to the CO2 emission problem.

Researchers around the world are working to find ways to make concrete greener, including at the University of Pennsylvania.

Turner Construction Co. and local ready-mix producer Boston Sand & Gravel report they are the first to place concrete with Sublime Systems' zero-carbon cement in a mud mat in an industrial project in ...

Touching wet cement can cause a chemical burn that may not appear right away and may get worse over time. Some cases require emergency medical care. Cement burns, sometimes also called concrete burns, ...

To make aerated concrete, add a foam-forming agent and stir in a significant amount of air. This serves to make the concrete ...

Figure 1: Annual carbon sequestration by cement 1930–2013. The concrete life cycle divided into three phases: service life (for example, in buildings), demolition and secondary use (including both ...

The TCEQ is weighing how to implement two new state laws that could tighten oversight of concrete batch plants.

Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures in a fraction of the time. The surprising reason is not mystical at all, but ...

Holcim on Tuesday said it had completed the purchase of French precast concrete maker Alkern, the latest acquisition by the ...

Securing access to reliable supplies of concrete and aggregates is the latest step in BW Ideol's scaling-up strategy for ...

A building block in most construction projects, concrete is responsible for about 8 percent of global carbon emissions. Several companies are working to create a greener mix. Credit... Supported by By ...