After a decade in the works, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles, have successfully devised a way to produce cement with 98% less CO2 emissions than traditional methods. The UCLA team ...

A new technique can produce cement using waste from demolished buildings, which researchers say could save billions of tonnes of carbon by 2050. “We have definitely proved that cement can be recycled ...

Green and sustainable-technology projects aren’t exactly in fashion in the United States federal government these days — and Cody Finke knows that personally. In May, the U.S. Department of Energy ...

Construction has historically been viewed as an unavoidably high emissions industry, with cement production contributing about 8% of global emissions. This problem is challenging to solve because you ...

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 ...

One of the biggest problems in dealing with carbon dioxide emissions is the making of the key component of cement: lime (calcium oxide). Now, a small company with the cute name Sublime Systems appears ...

Two of the world’s biggest cement producers, Holcim AG and CRH PLC, are investing in a startup attempting to decarbonize the cement production process. Cement and concrete are responsible for about 8% ...

Concrete is the second-most used substance on earth after water. Brimstone Energy, a California-based startup, is one of several companies trying to reduce the carbon emissions from the production of ...

Sabbie A. Miller is in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA. Steel-decarbonization strategies have included finding ...

In this interview, AZoM speaks to Paul Haigh, Product Manager at CARBOLITE, about the QA of raw materials process testing within the cement industry. Can you start by giving our readers an overview of ...

The modern world is built on concrete, and cement is what makes it possible. You've probably heard these two terms used interchangeably, especially while watching DIY videos on YouTube. However, they ...