Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems. Concrete already builds our world, and an MIT-invented variant known as ...

Masoud Akbarzadeh (left), a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, is working with students to design concrete structures that use as little concrete as possible while remaining ...

The doors could soon close on new construction of wood-framed homes. At least that is what many regulators are pushing to make happen. After decades of wood-framed houses being pummeled by wildfires, ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signed an agreement in January 2024 to beef up protection along their land borders with Russia and Moscow's key ally, Belarus. Estonia said at the ...

A newly excavated, ancient construction site at Pompeii, frozen in time after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, has allowed archaeologists to finally determine the methods used to make Roman concrete.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have created a new carbon-negative building material that could transform sustainable construction. The breakthrough, published in the high-impact ...

CONCRETE — The Concrete Town Council unanimously agreed Monday to draft a purchase and sale agreement to sell the Superior Building to private developer Witold “Vito” Szczepaniak. The meeting had a ...

It became clear in the late 2010s that Amherst College’s science center had aged far past its prime. As the concrete building fell into disrepair, school leaders suspected a demolition was in order.

Humans began mixing crushed limestone with water to make cement over 2,000 years ago, and the material is still in use today as the main ingredient in concrete. Concrete is the second-most used ...

Isola Della Musica Opera and Convention hall by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Render. Image Courtesy of RPBW Isola Della Musica Opera and Convention hall by Renzo ...

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Imagine your building not just protecting you from the elements, but also storing electricity. MIT researchers just gave that idea a major push with a new version of "electron-conducting carbon ...