The Modern Concrete Skyscraper’ highlights key buildings such as Chicago’s Marina Towers, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur ...

Innovative microbial co-cultures inspired by lichen offer a self-healing solution for concrete, using sunlight, air, and ...

AAR damages concrete structures all over the world and makes complex renovations or reconstructions necessary. Researchers have now solved the structure of the material produced in the course of ...

The team reports that a grid of BioFibers embedded within a concrete structure can improve its durability ... inspired by skin tissue’s self-healing capability and vasculature system’s role in helping ...

One of the main loads that a structure must support is its own weight ... and pillars of buildings built with reinforced concrete. There are several other methods, but this is probably one ...

This causes it to pop up, taking on the three-dimensional shape of the finished structure. Next, locally sourced wet concrete is pumped into the walls and roof of the form, displacing the air inside.

The library is designed on sustainable principles. The two-storey reading room has a cast in situ concrete structure of cylindrical columns; the heads taper and extend to form four arms which support ...

it sailed past a structure designed to prevent that kind of disaster. Those structures — known as dolphins — are circular concrete constructions located near a bridge's central supports.