Nudura Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) meet the demands of today's buildings, offering an energy efficient and eco-friendly construction option. ICFs consist of two panels of expanded polystyrene foam ...
Concrete is no longer just a niche material in residential construction. As natural disasters become more frequent and severe, the shortcomings of traditional wood-framed homes are being laid bare.
Q. Hello, Tim. I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children’s plastic blocks. Does a concrete ...
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'This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture': Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made
The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...
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Concrete in our buildings fighting climate change without us knowing
Making cement is amongst one of the largest industrial sources of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, driven by energy-intensive ...
A new kind of concrete could reduce emissions from the construction industry. Calcium carbonate concrete is made from waste concrete and carbon dioxide from the air or industrial exhaust gases. It ...
A building under construction on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo., features a complex geometry of steel framing and exposed structural concrete that makes it the ...
Aside from simply finding a new use for discarded goods, we’ve seen how adding recycled rubber tires to concrete can make the material stronger and more heat resistant. New research has continued to ...
Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...
INCREASING, THEY’RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SAVE. WHETHER IT’S COVID OR TARIFFS, CERTAINLY THE COST OF BUILDING SUPPLIES IS GOING UP AND I DON’T SEE IT COMING BACK DOWN. STARTING IN SEPTEMBER WHEN THEY ...
At its nuclear fission technology demonstration facility, one of Kairos Power’s goals is to accelerate nuclear plant construction. In a first project with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Kairos ...
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