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World of Concrete Is Back – Same Intensity, New Enthusiasm
The 50th Anniversary of the World of Concrete- WOC, is the first and largest exhibition that caters to global commercial concrete construction and masonry industries and is now accepting registrations. It is a three-day education and community-focused event that...
Building Products
Sugar Processing Waste For Greener Construction Materials
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Researchers at Idaho State University have gone on to conduct a recent study that goes on to reveal that by replacing a segment of the cement that gets typically used in concrete with...
Building Products
Rammed Earth, Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Offer Better Build
Ancient concrete mixes made use of various materials like horse hair, urine, beer, and tree bark, as well as sugar, to elevate the strength of this long-lasting building material.
The Roman aqueducts, Mayan temples, which date back a thousand years,...
Building Products
Co-Processing In The Cement Sector Promoting Sustainability
The use of alternative fuels, also called as co-processing, has the simultaneous recycling of materials as well as the recovery of energy from waste by way of a thermal process. This option replaces natural mineral resources and also fossil...
Building Products
Making Concrete More Sustainable The Ancient Technique Way
A group of experts who happen to be from EPFL, ETH Zurich, as well as an architecture firm based in Geneva, has successfully gone on to create a new form of non-reinforced concrete by way of using stone offcuts....
Infrastructure
UK SME Builders Say Planning System Creates Barriers – Study
More than half of the SME builders, who happened to be surveyed by the Federation of Master Builders- FMB went on to identify the planning system as their major obstacle when it came to delivering new homes.
It is well...
Infrastructure
2022 UK Construction Output As Good As Pre-COVID Levels
As per recently released data from the ONS, construction output in the UK reached pre-COVID levels for the first time in 2022.
Last year, the value of new work reached a record high of £133bn, thereby representing a 15.8% surge...
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