Cecil Jones, a materials engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation and also chair of the American Association of State Highway Transportation Official’s (AASHTO) task force on ...

Australian scientists are trying to close the loop on steel waste and sewage wastewater. When they made new concrete using these waste materials, the results were 17 percent stronger than concrete ...

This time of year, bushels of rhubarb, potatoes, and lettuce can be harvested in abundance at the People’s Pantry, a community garden that doubles as a fresh food pantry in Blackpool, England. There, ...

Concrete is a long--lasting material, but roads, buildings and other concrete structures can exhaust their usefulness. When these structures are demolished, the debris can get a new life through ...

A study funded by the Waste & Resources Action Programme finds that abandoned airfields could be s a major potential source of recycled aggregates. However, the study finds that while the project ...

Having been utilized as early as the Roman era in buildings of almost every scale, it is almost impossible to think of a building that does not have at least one concrete element. In fact, it is the ...

Recycled slab breakthrough: Composite slabs with high-strength steel and 100% recycled aggregates matched or exceeded traditional performance in full-scale tests. Sustainable material use: The method ...

In recent years, we've heard about efforts to replace some of the aggregate used in concrete with crumbled used tires. Now, however, scientists have succeeded in producing good quality concrete in ...

Concrete recycling could be key to post-war construction in Ukraine, according to a research team from Ukrainian, Swiss and French universities. Having recycled little in the past, Ukraine could ...