For soaring bridges, dramatic skyscrapers and even the path around your local park, builders love concrete, making it the most-used building material in the world – but producing the cement used in ...

Concrete: we can't live with it, can't live without it. A combination of cement, water and rock or sand aggregates, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined ...

Most people don't think about the tons of concrete in the buildings and structures around them until disasters strike, such as yesterday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But ...

What just happened? Scientists from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new type of concrete from waste materials that can bend under load, potentially making ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is studying whether a change in building codes would reduce the amount of damage caused during natural disasters. There were 409 natural disasters ...

Julian Smith describes the ecological disasters generated by digging sand for use in concrete (17 February, p 35). These are only part of the story. Manufacture of cement causes around 5 per cent of ...

Concrete: we can’t live with it, can’t live without it. A combination of cement, water and ground rock or sand, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined construction ...