Amrize unveils a $700M initiative linking domestic cement sourcing to carbon goals as new Buy America rules take hold.

Amrize unveils a $700M initiative linking domestic cement sourcing to carbon goals as new Buy America rules take hold.

The billions of tons of cement made each year have an enormous carbon footprint: 8% of global emissions, or four times more than the airline industry. That’s both because of the energy used to make ...

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 ...

Scientists at MIT have made an efficient battery out of cement, one that could form the foundation of your house and be used to charge your electric car. They took the existing cement battery and made ...

After water, concrete is the most consumed substance on the planet and its production is expected to grow from 4.4 billion tons to 5.5 billion tons by 2050. But its production, which involves cement, ...

University of Wisconsin’s Clean Energy Community Initiative hosted UW College of Engineering Associate Professor Bu Wang, PhD ...

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As pedestrians head down Halsted Street in the Fulton Market district, a spiral structure in the middle of the Mews Pedway invites them to walk toward its center. At a glance, the coil seems to have ...

In 2014, hundreds of Angelenos gathered downtown to watch more than 2,000 trucks pour concrete into a vast hole. During that event, Los Angeles set a world record: 80 million pounds of concrete were ...

The construction industry has a climate problem: cement. Cement is an essential ingredient in the 30 billion tons of concrete used worldwide every year. But it’s also responsible for about 8% of the ...