Take a behind the scenes tour of modern cement factories and discover how raw materials are transformed into the essential building material that shapes our world from limestone and clay to high ...

A new cement-making process could shift production from being a carbon source to a carbon sink, creating a carbon-negative version of the building material, researchers report March 18 in Advanced ...

The cement industry has set ambitious goals to cut its carbon footprint. But as federal funding dries up, its path to a ...

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a method for making sand-like materials for concrete by combining carbon ...

A new fungi-based concrete alternative could finally give the construction industry the game-changing material it has been ...

Concrete is how we try to tame nature ... clay minerals in a kiln), the most-energy intensive part of the cement-making process. But other environmental impacts are far less well understood.

Researchers in Japan found a way to make concrete that effectively emits no carbon dioxide (CO2) during the production process. The team of scientists, primarily from the University of Tokyo and ...