Masoud Akbarzadeh (left), a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, is working with students to design concrete structures that use as little concrete as possible while remaining ...

Abstract: In the realm of construction, achieving high-performance concrete (HPC) involves incorporating supplementary materials like fly ash and blast furnace slag, along with superplasticizer. The ...

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At the JEC Forum DACH, held in Dresden, Germany, on 21–22 October, AVK, the German Federation of Reinforced Plastics, announced the winners of its 2025 Innovation Award. The three award categories ...

Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade material. But it also has a huge carbon footprint, accounting for around 8% of global ...

Skyscrapers, highways, and the endless churn of traffic define much of modern city living. Yet for millions of people, the very environments built to fuel economic growth are also fueling chronic ...

The integration of textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) and reinforced concrete (RC) has recently emerged as a promising strategy for developing hybrid structures. This study examines the flexural and ...

ETH Zurich researchers in Switzerland are using geometry to design concrete forms that cut pollution from builds with haste, according to a university news release. What's more, builders won't need a ...