As the mostly widely used material on Earth, concrete has a massive carbon footprint that scientists are working to chip away at in all sorts of ways. Recent research projects have demonstrated how ...

Each time Mija Hubler drives through Denver, she notices bridges patched with concrete and thinks about how these structures might fail. Hubler, an associate professor in CU Boulder’s Department of ...

Engineering students from Brigham Young University are proving that concrete does actually float. On Friday, teams of college students converged on Utah Lake State Park for the annual American Society ...

A team of students from UB’s Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering won first place in an international competition involving ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC), a class of ...

Carbonaide's system cures concrete in a CO2-rich environment to capture the carbon, and does not require high-pressure injection or other additional steps. A Finnish start-up is joining the tiny band ...

As infrastructure ages and deteriorates over time, the development of self-healing concrete could provide a more sustainable solution by reducing the need for repairs and maintenance. Researchers at ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth — concrete — to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and ...

LOWELL — It’s a problem an engineer would love. In fact, 21 of them signed up for it in their free time. The problem is how do you win a boat race with concrete? More specifically, students at UMass ...

It’s a most unlikely habitat and really has no creature comforts to recommend it. But University of Delaware researcher Julie Maresca and students in her lab are studying concrete and the life that ...

The field trial of a mineral-based concrete binder as a replacement for portland cement shows promise, says structural engineer Don Davies, the developer of a living laboratory in Seattle to prove the ...

Drexel researchers are recycling coal ash, a waste product from coal power plants, to make a porous, lightweight aggregate that can be used as a concrete additive to aid the hardening process. Coal ...