If you visit Denge, a former Royal Air Force base on the Eastern coastline of Kent, England, you’ll find three enormous concrete structures. Two of the structures resemble a hollow ball, cut in half ...

Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is rapidly emerging as a premier material for precast concrete construction. First introduced as “reactive powder concrete” in the early 1990s, this material has ...

Harvard University’s first hybrid mass timber and low-carbon concrete conference center is a bold commitment to ...

Productivity. It’s not a formula. It’s not material. It’s a concept and one easier said than done. Historically, productivity has been a challenge for the concrete construction industry to tackle.

Concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials, but its production is a significant source of carbon emissions due to the energy-intensive process of cement manufacturing. As the ...

Concrete has been around for millennia, but that doesn't mean we can't cook up new ways to build with the world's favorite construction material. It's been electrified to melt snow and used as an "ink ...

New research shows steel I- and T-sections inside concrete beams can offset shear loss from web openings—enhancing safety in ...

Rendering of CUBE building at TU Dresden and Hitexbau carbon fiber grid. Source | © Iurii Vakaliuk, HENN, TU Dresden and Hitexbau. Technical University Dresden in ...

Victor C. Li co-founded and co-owns Li, Fischer, Lepech and Associates, LLC, a consulting/service firm specializing in ECC Technology. Spring construction season is underway, and many tons of concrete ...