Concrete: upon this rock-like composite we have built our church – and our houses, roads, bridges, skyscrapers, and factories. As a species we consume more than 4.1 billion tonnes of the stuff every ...

A biofilm forms on the interior surface of concrete as seawater penetrates the concrete of a road tunnel. A study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology (located in Sweden) points to the ...

A team of engineers has combined graphene and titanium dioxide nanoparticles to create a new solar-powered catalyst that can pluck pollutants out of the air, much more efficiently than others. The ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Cement production is responsible for 7–8% of global CO₂ emissions AI and process controls at a Heidelberg plant have cut ...