The building industry is "by far" the largest emitter of greenhouse gases of any sector, according to the U.N.

The addition of polymer fibers can provide a little extra support, should the material be strained in tension or torsion.

Tucson officials broke ground Wednesday on a new facility that will transform plastic waste into construction-grade building material ... because concrete blocks have a carbon footprint ...

Turning SCGs into concrete hollow blocks keeps them away from waste disposal. Even better, they could become an alternative raw component for quality construction materials. As a result ...

Researchers at the University of East London (UEL) have built a school in India out of a new low-carbon building material ...

RAFT contains fundamental widely-used algorithms and primitives for machine learning and information retrieval. The algorithms are CUDA-accelerated and form building blocks for more easily writing ...

Typically, when you want to build a high rise, you need iron, steel, cement, concrete ... into a building, it also avoids emissions from steel and cement. Together those two materials produce ...

But when it comes to tension, the material does not hold up. It is brittle, so it cracks and breaks easily. Even when reinforced with steel, it regularly requires ongoing repairs, whether used for ...

27 that U.S.-Mexico border wall materials, including steel bollards, structural tubes, concrete and fencing bought during the first Trump administration cannot be sold by federal agencies before ...