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Putting clean concrete on trial
Concrete manufacturers and users have been working on new carbon-reducing recipes for the building material. One day, these may allow for fully carbon-free concrete. But
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#245 Transparent Concrete
What would it mean to be able to look at a bag of concrete, and see its embodied carbon? That’s the goal of the new
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#236 RAAC: The Misunderstood Material?
RAAC, or reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, enabled a boom in public building in post-war Britain. It allowed schools, hospitals and other services to be built
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#219 Syria: Rising from the rubble
Can engineers help to build peace? Can the solutions engineers develop in places of conflict, contribute to the development of low carbon? They can. And
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#201 Creating the UK’s First eMixer
In 2019 Tarmac announced their Innovation Challenge, for companies to propose new technologies to help Tarmac decarbonise. Over the next three years in partnership with
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Upcycling PPE into concrete
Engineers at RMIT University in Melbourne have published studies for reinforcing structural concrete using recycled personal protective equipment (PPE). The process aims to provide a
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#165 A Road Map to Net Zero Highways
In 2020 National Highways released their 2030/2040/2050 Net Zero plan. The plan laid out three main targets for reaching net zero, first cutting all their
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Mask waste materials strengthen concrete
A new study released by researchers from Washington State University shows that using waste materials from single use masks can improve the strength of a
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Concrete solution to concrete pollution
A new kind of concrete could reduce emissions from the construction industry, according to a paper from researchers at the University of Tokyo. In a
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Concrete that repairs itself
A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Politecnico di Milano has designed new ultra-resistant and self-repairing concrete materials, according to a
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Solving Rail’s Hidden Hazards
Author: Alex Conacher Partner: Trojan Services Ltd In 2019/20 an estimated 693,000 workers in Great Britain sustained a non-fatal injury at work. The figure, which
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#104 Solving Rail’s Hidden Hazard
In 2019/20 an estimated 693,000 workers in Great Britain sustained a non-fatal injury at work in Great Britain. The figure, which comes from the Office