World’s Hardest Concrete With Improved Impact Resistance for Disaster Prevention
A research team including Kanazawa University tests the impact response of the world’s hardest concrete. Concrete is the most widely used building material in the…
A research team including Kanazawa University tests the impact response of the world’s hardest concrete. Concrete is the most widely used building material in the…
A five-story mixed-use structure in Roxbury represents a new kind of net-zero-energy building, made from wood. A new building about to take shape in Boston’s…
Academics at University College London have identified 18 reasons why megaprojects such as HS2 and Crossrail often fail, as well as 54 preventative solutions. For…
A material revolution replacing cement and steel in urban construction by wood can have double benefits for climate stabilization, a new study shows. First, it…
Researchers at Cornell University are designing robots that can autonomously traverse and manipulate a 3-D truss structure by using specially designed gears and joints to…
A team of engineers at Drexel University have developed a “green” version of ordinary Portland cement (OPC). By using a form of alkali-activated cement that…