As a widely used material across the globe, cement has a massive environmental footprint and accounts for around eight percent of our CO2 emissions, but scientists hope to eat into this problem by ...

The study on mine tailings as SCMs underscores their potential to reduce cement use and support greener construction ...

Recycled glass could become part of the next big step in sustainable construction. Scientists from the University of Portsmouth in the UK have discovered that recycled glass powder can effectively ...

FILE - Sheep graze on a grass land near a cement plant on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Oct. 17, 2015. New global data released in May 2022, shows that emissions of heat-trapping gases coming from ...

Researchers from the University of Michigan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Northwestern University and the California Institute of Technology recently developed a new cement manufacturing ...

Last month, on a bitterly cold day, a truck pulled up to a construction site in Boston and poured concrete. It looked and performed like ordinary concrete—but it was the first commercial use of a new ...

New technologies spurred by federal support show a cleaner path forward for the highly emissive cement and concrete industry. Despite cement’s overwhelming presence, the world has been relatively slow ...