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

What is new is that as the headwall was printed, a lidar unit made precise scans of the structure, building up a digital virtual twin against which the real thing can be compared. Also, wireless ...

We're standing at a crossroads where every ton of cement we pour matters more than ever. 56 billion metric tons of carbon ...

As architecture continues to shift towards environmental sustainability, the demand for low-carbon materials is increasing exponentially in the construction industry – and the concrete sector is no ...

Forget scarves and mittens. Soon, we might be able to knit entire buildings. A team from the Swiss university ETH Zurich has developed a technique that allows them to knit textiles that can then form ...

When bridges, dam walls and other structures made of concrete are streaked with dark cracks after a few decades, the culprit is AAR: the alkali-aggregate reaction. AAR damages concrete structures all ...

Slow but steady growth in the use of 3D-printed concrete in construction brings in new firms and users, as the nascent industry finds the right market niches for a continually evolving technology As ...

Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman concrete technology that could heal itself over time.