Concrete and cement. Two seemingly similar products that frequently get confused. It's something that's perfectly understandable. After all, you often hear people talk about using cement in the ...

To make aerated concrete, add a foam-forming agent and stir in a significant amount of air. This serves to make the concrete ...

Concrete is the most commonly used building material in the world, but unfortunately the cement used to make it carries quite a carbon footprint. Now, scientists at the University of Tokyo have ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The use of concrete as a construction material has been around for millenia: Historians say that ancient ...

This concrete is remarkably lightweight—yet structurally sound—and captures up to 142% more CO₂ than conventional mixes while using less cement and still meeting standard compressive-strength targets.

Around three billion tons of cement are produced around the world each year (Guillaume, 2014), of which the majority is consumed in developing countries due to ceaselessly growing demand, attributed ...

The world's most common construction material has a secret. Cement, the "glue" that holds concrete together, gradually ...