Recycled concrete made from demolished buildings could slash emissions and prevent construction waste from going to landfill, its inventor says. The product features injected CO2, which brings ...
Worldwide consumption of concrete is estimated at 20 billion tonnes. To produce such a huge volume of concrete, we need 14 billion tonnes of natural aggregate. To supply aggregate, it is necessary to ...
Much has been said about circularity in the construction industry. Inspired by nature, the circular economy works in a continuous process of production, resorption and recycling, self-managing and ...
The waste sector operates in some of the toughest conditions imaginable, but with informed design, modern material ...
Australian scientists are trying to close the loop on steel waste and sewage wastewater. When they made new concrete using these waste materials, the results were 17 percent stronger than concrete ...
Most concrete from demolished buildings is simply dumped, much of it illegally. But there’s a better way – and it involves lightning At the Shenzhen dump, huge shards of dusty concrete lie in imposing ...
Concrete recycling could be key to post-war construction in Ukraine, according to a research team from Ukrainian, Swiss and French universities. Having recycled little in the past, Ukraine could ...
Researchers have developed a process for turning the solid waste products of coal power plants into a useful ingredient that could improve properties of concrete. Coal ash is the less notorious ...
Recent RPI Masters of Architecture graduate Henry Miller has devised a way to reuse waste plastic as an aggregate in cement, circumventing the energy-intensive process of plastic recycling. By ...