"A great deal of the concrete we use today has the function to act as a protective layer to prevent the steel reinforcement from corroding. If we can use textile reinforcement instead, we can reduce ...

Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2015. Read the original here. Imagine living in the far future, able to look back in time and watch when Roman engineers came up with the arch ...

Concrete is a very durable material. Fine examples of its first structural use by the Romans are still standing, and concrete is now probably the most widely used building material in the world.

Built on the site of a former two-story candelabra factory, Candela Lofts is the first luxury, multi-family building in the New York Metropolitan area built to international Passive House standards.

The Stone Demonstrator produces only 6,443kg of CO2 – less than 3% of the others. The stone is cut from quarries and in this ...

The electrons produced during this process are conducted through the metal whilst the ions formed are transported via the pore water which acts as the electrolyte. Concrete as an Environment The ...

Furnace tests were conducted on large-scale loaded and restrained reinforced concrete tunnel slabs to evaluate the level of fire damage. Extreme fire events in tunnels may have catastrophic ...

Dublin, Sept. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Fiber Reinforced Concrete Market by Application (Building Construction, Industrial Flooring, Infrastructure), Fiber Type (Glass Fiber, Natural Fiber, ...