ETH Zurich researchers in Switzerland are using geometry to design concrete forms that cut pollution from builds with haste, according to a university news release. What's more, builders won't need a ...

Selkent, a leading UK supplier of construction fixings and tools, will be the exclusive distributor of the Maturix intelligent sensor system. The Maturix unit provides real-time monitoring of concrete ...

Concrete's strength and structural integrity come not only in its material properties, but also from how it's molded during construction. An architecture student has devised a clever way to build ...

I used rammed earth to form a concrete lounge chair. I packed the earth into a melanin box. I covered the dirt with linoleum and then made DIY white concrete by mixing white Portland cement with ...

From its earliest mechanization in the 1910s into the 1960s, concrete paving involved quite the complicated process. The same work was done as today, but with much different equipment. This image, ...

Industrial wastes have found great use in the built environment due to the role they play in the sustainable infrastructure development especially in green concrete production. In this research ...

A team from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science is using cellulose nanofibrils (CNF), a plant-based material, to fortify concrete. Considered a major contributor to ...

In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...