Give your worn-out concrete steps a fresh, like-new finish with this step-by-step resurfacing guide. Using NewCrete Concrete Resurfacer, we show you how to properly prep, mix, and apply for a durable ...

Mouna Reda receives funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Samir Chidiac receives funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. McMaster ...

Concrete is an extremely powerful material often used for sidewalks, driveways, or garage floors. Maybe you have a beautiful concrete patio that boosts your home's value. Sometimes, the weather or ...

Concrete accounts for nearly 8% of global CO₂ emissions and a major contributor is non-optimized processes. Giatec, a Canadian construction tech company, saw an opportunity to change that. “We started ...

As rebuilding from the Palisades and Eaton fires gets under way, some homeowners are choosing to build differently. Instead of the usual wood framing, they’re working with a material typically ...

Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade material. But it also has a huge carbon footprint, accounting for around 8% of global ...

One of the first applications of roller-compacted concrete was using it as a quick way to build air strips during World War II. RCC was also used to construct dams because of the durability and ...

Over the past few years, scientists have developed new kinds of a multifunctional concrete, whether that be self-healing or carbon-sequestering. Now, a new study has made improvements on ways to turn ...

Concrete has long built our cities, but researchers now see it as a future power source, too. A new form of electron-conducting carbon concrete, or ec3, can store and release electricity. The ...

Slow but steady growth in the use of 3D-printed concrete in construction brings in new firms and users, as the nascent industry finds the right market niches for a continually evolving technology As ...

Watching the side of a mountain get blown to bits in the new documentary Architecton, the shock is not just from the explosion but also from the quotidian end result of such brutal force. The film by ...