Control of concrete strength and maturity in large-scale projects has traditionally been recorded and measured manually. Nowadays, there are new technologies that allow builders to melt sensors ...

The thermal monitoring of concrete plays an important role in ensuring performance and avoiding early-age cracking. Often, this scenario involves a mass-concrete placement such as a building’s large ...

What do the Hoover Dam, the Sydney Opera House, the Great Wall of China and the Pantheon have in common? They’re all examples of incredible, ambitious concrete construction. But our most widely used ...

A pair of airmen inspect a crack on the runway to determine its severity at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., July 19, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alystria Maurer/Released) The ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Big Tech is throwing money at one of the trickiest climate problems to solve: cleaning up carbon dioxide ...

Masoud Akbarzadeh (left), a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, is working with students to design concrete structures that use as little concrete as possible while remaining ...

A new material made of seawater, carbon dioxide, and electricity could give the construction industry a much-needed climate upgrade. Developed by researchers at Northwestern University, the paste-like ...

Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on July 23, 2024. Find that audio here. Many of the new solutions to fight climate change sound almost ...