There is a perception that construction software applications are only affordable and needed by large multinational companies working on billion-dollar jobs. However, Daniel De Monte,…
At UCLA an interdisciplinary research team is recycling carbon dioxide in an innovative process to develop sustainable building material. Explore 12 Futuristic Technology Trends Solving…
Researcher at the University of Cambridge are making small batches of the artificial bone and are now in the process of scaling it up for…
McKinsey & Company has recently released a report that provides in sight on why the construction industry is ripe for disruption. The McKinsey Global Institute…
Which construction project received the Guinness title for world’s largest continuous concrete pour? The Wilshire Grand Center in the USA or the Lakhta Center Tower in Russia?
Wastewater plants in Malaysia face the major challenge of disposing the sludge that is left over from treating sewage water. While studies show that the…
Contractors are always on the go — bouncing from jobsites, the office and everywhere in between. Time doesn’t stop on the job, and a project’s…
When drivers face a work zone, they have a choice: go through or go around. But for traffic engineers, this choice represents an awkward problem….
According to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute the world needs to dramatically ramp up spending on infrastructure to keep up with economic…
The American Concrete Institute announces the availability of the new ACI 562-16: Code Requirements for Evaluation, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Buildings and Commentary. Explore…
The famous international architecture firm, Zaha Hadid, has topped out the twisting skyscraper in Milan. Originally named ‘lo storto’, (‘the twisted one’), the 170 meter…
Barry Swenson always knew his company’s concrete construction methodology was something pretty special. Now he has the United States patent to prove it. Explore 12…
5000 plus Parisians attended a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the future Fort d’Issy-Vanves-Clamart station on June 4 to mark the official start of…
MCI 2020 is an organic, surface applied, migrating corrosion inhibitor designed to penetrate through cementitious materials including concrete, mortar, and limestone. It travels in both…
In the journal Construction and Building Materials, a paper was published contrasting cement paste with the structure and properties of natural materials such as bones,…
Called a Method, Apparatus and System for Testing the Self-Sealing Capabilities of a Concrete Sample, the test measures and verifies the self-sealing properties of concrete…
After being up and running for the last 99 years, one of the most impressive engineering structure, will be getting an upgraded. The Panama Canal…
According to Gilbert Bennett Nalcor Energy’s vice-president, Nalcor Energy will “ensure a full safety investigation is completed and that the contractor and its workers implement…
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