To increase the strength of concrete, researchers are coming up with new ways to reinforce—usually with metal structures or nanofibers. A RUDN University professor with colleagues from Iran discovered ...

Concrete is the foundation of most of our infrastructure. However, the process of concrete production has remained relatively unchanged for decades. From creating and transporting concrete to ...

Attempts in the past have tried adding plastic scrap to traditional building products, but shredding the material and dumping it into concrete or asphalt does not work in most applications because ...

Cleaning up the construction material that is both building our way of life, while contributing to the CO2 emission problem.

Construction, and in particular concrete and steel, is one of the most material-intensive and CO₂-emitting sectors. Fiber Elements, an Austrian start-up founded in 2023, is determined to make this ...