Shelley Goldberg advises on investments that generate environmental impact and is the founder of Invest-With-Purpose. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and ...

Given its status as the most widely-used manufactured material on Earth, reducing the huge environmental footprint of concrete would have significant consequences for the health of the planet.

Concrete is a very popular building material, enough so that one of its key ingredients – sand – is in increasingly short supply. Scientists are thus now exploring the possibility of replacing that ...

A global shortage of construction-grade sand is reshaping coastlines, destabilizing ecosystems, and putting activists in the ...

A new study found that graphene derived from metallurgical coke, a coal-based product, through flash Joule heating could serve not only as a reinforcing additive in cement but also as a replacement ...

In an attempt to solve two environmental problems at once, researchers at the University of Kitakyushu in Japan have found that shredded nappies can be used to replace between 9 and 40% of the sand ...

A sand scandal is brewing in China, with concerns that low-quality concrete has been used in the construction of many of the country's largest buildings -- putting them at risk of collapse. The recipe ...

Researchers have discovered how to make concrete from recycled glass - by turning it back into sand. A team from Australia were able to turn the waste into a replacement for industrial flooring - ...

The History of Concrete is definitely about concrete. But it’s not, for the most part, about its history. Aside from ...