While sand is an important component in many construction materials, it’s not suitable for most building purposes all on its ...

Cement is one of those materials you don’t think about until it breaks — until the bridge you drive across, the house you live in, or the sidewalk you walk on shows cracks. Yet it is everything ...

Picture the Pantheon in Rome. Considering that it was built in CE 128, it has held together remarkably well under the footsteps of hundreds of millions of visitors over the centuries. If the ancient ...

A laboratory study of peat from Ziro Valley, India, found that combining 15% cement with 12% rice husk ash raised unconfined ...

Kolkata: India’s cement industry has become more energy-efficient and reduced its carbon emissions per tonne of production, but its overall carbon footprint continues to grow, while increasing ...

An ordinary household item becomes the mold for an impressive DIY garden planter. This project offers a budget-friendly way ...

If you had looked at Siam Cement on 1 January 2026, you would have seen a business caught between bullish talk of green ...

In 2014, hundreds of Angelenos gathered downtown to watch more than 2,000 trucks pour concrete into a vast hole. During that event, Los Angeles set a world record: 80 million pounds of concrete were ...

Scientists at startup Sublime Systems want to fix one of our biggest climate nightmares. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...

Touching wet cement can cause a chemical burn that may not appear right away and may get worse over time. Some cases require emergency medical care. Cement burns, sometimes also called concrete burns, ...