From driveways and walkways to segmental retaining walls and pools, concrete has been an essential home building material for the past century. Recently, concrete construction has risen to new heights ...

Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, but it comes at a huge environmental cost. Engineers in Japan have developed a new technique to make concrete by recycling waste ...

A new kind of concrete could reduce emissions from the construction industry. Calcium carbonate concrete is made from waste concrete and carbon dioxide from the air or industrial exhaust gases. It ...

"The green walls don't require maintenance, and the moss protects the structure underneath from weathering." ...

A Rowan University team of engineers has developed a new way to measure how 3D-printed concrete deforms during printing and ...

Concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials, but its production is a significant source of carbon emissions due to the energy-intensive process of cement manufacturing. As the ...

One of the more interesting areas of battery research centers on how these devices can not just store energy, but also double as structural components. We've seen some impressive examples of this that ...

Concrete normally has one job: keeping buildings from tumbling down. But researchers in China have made a version that can do ...

Building materials that clean themselves could save immense time and labor in homes and businesses, as well as reduce disease risk in settings such as hospitals. Now, researchers reporting in ACS ...

Cellular coverage inside concrete buildings is usually less than optimal. The thick, dense walls block the cellular signal. Several options can boost your reception inside this type of structure.

Before the Whole Foods in Gowanus was built, a handsome building stood alone, left over from the bustling concrete industry that came before. But more than just another pretty Neoclassical building, ...