Microbial Communities May Help us Detect Damaged Concrete
Concrete is known to be the world’s most common building material as it shapes our buildings, bridges and runways, sidewalks and more – and at…
Concrete is known to be the world’s most common building material as it shapes our buildings, bridges and runways, sidewalks and more – and at…
Donald Trump plans on building a wall along the entire Mexican border if he is elected as the President of America as an attempt to…
Over the next several months, the concrete base of Oceanside’s municipal pier – an iconic 90-year old structure located in California – will be undergoing…
The Utah Department of Transportation is using a recyclable resource to repair worn bridges along one of the busier highways in Salt Lake County. Get…
An MIT-led team has defined the nanoscale forces that control how particles pack together during the development of cement “paste,” the material that holds together…
At UCLA an interdisciplinary research team is recycling carbon dioxide in an innovative process to develop sustainable building material. Get Your First SmartRock Concrete Sensor…
Researcher at the University of Cambridge are making small batches of the artificial bone and are now in the process of scaling it up for…
Concrete 3D printing is largely being pushed by small startups, yet the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is using the technology to create some interesting…
Wastewater plants in Malaysia face the major challenge of disposing the sludge that is left over from treating sewage water. While studies show that the…
When drivers face a work zone, they have a choice: go through or go around. But for traffic engineers, this choice represents an awkward problem….
According to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute the world needs to dramatically ramp up spending on infrastructure to keep up with economic…
The famous international architecture firm, Zaha Hadid, has topped out the twisting skyscraper in Milan. Originally named ‘lo storto’, (‘the twisted one’), the 170 meter…
Barry Swenson always knew his company’s concrete construction methodology was something pretty special. Now he has the United States patent to prove it. Get Your…
5000 plus Parisians attended a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the future Fort d’Issy-Vanves-Clamart station on June 4 to mark the official start of…
MCI 2020 is an organic, surface applied, migrating corrosion inhibitor designed to penetrate through cementitious materials including concrete, mortar, and limestone. It travels in both…
In the journal Construction and Building Materials, a paper was published contrasting cement paste with the structure and properties of natural materials such as bones,…
After being up and running for the last 99 years, one of the most impressive engineering structure, will be getting an upgraded. The Panama Canal…
The majority of the United States’ largest infrastructure projects were built in the 19th and the 20th century. The USA was once in the headlines…