Want to create a sleek paved space? Then you need to know what material to lay under your pavers -- sand or gravel? We're breaking both down.

This study explores sustainable concrete mixes incorporating desert and recycled crushed sand to replace river sand, tested ...

Researchers have developed a breakthrough method to turn lunar and Martian sand into strong building materials. This ...

Every seven weeks I sit in my barber’ s chair and say to Mikayla:“ Take no prisoners. Cut each and every one of them.” She ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have developed a strong concrete that emmits less carbon that traditional concrete ...

It sounds almost like a middle school science experiment: According to Anol Mukhopadhyay, a senior research scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, ASR is a chemical reaction in concrete ...

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My new flat patio soon was not so flat. The sand beneath the pavers was being transported away grain-by-grain by union ...

Concrete has been used for construction since Roman times. Roman concrete was a mixture of lime-pozzolana cement and ...

As one of the deadliest typhoons in decades ripped through Vietnam, a harrowing video of a bridge collapsing emerged on ...

Introduction Instead of traditional bricks and stones, concrete blocks are used to construct structures. They are made of sand, aggregat ...

Concrete is the second-most consumed material on the planet after water. Strong, cheap and resilient, it is made everywhere and used for pretty much everything. From hospitals and bridges to dams and ...