Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

Across the Mediterranean, hulking Roman harbors, aqueducts and amphitheaters still stand where modern concrete would have ...

The only snag was that this didn’t match the recipe as described in historical texts. Now the same team is back with a fresh ...

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 ...

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 ...

They have created a 3D concrete bridge that absorbs CO2 like bones and uses 60% less material than a conventional bridge.

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 ...

After more than 100 gate docking and undocking operations across more than 45 years, Concrete Tech Corp.’s Tacoma dry dock was in need of a replacement caisson gate, a 150-ft-long floating concrete ...

Question: I am curious what the large concrete structure is off Highway 74 near Carrizo Road. It appears to be only partially completed. It's briefly visible when you are driving "down" highway 74 ...