PCA and MIT work towards Climate Action Plan

The US cement industry is playing its part in reacting to President Obama's Climate Action Plan which states several areas where cement and concrete could help to reduce greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions. One such area is infrastructure.

Read more about it in World Cement.

Concrete Goes To College

Concrete is one of the oldest materials on the planet, but it has taken thousands of years for it to mature. Scientists have only begun to decode how concrete behaves at the atomic level. Those molecular structures are yielding new clues that could change the way industry builds.

Read more at ENR: Engineering News Record.

Concrete source: MIT scientists turn the concrete jungle green

The word "concrete" is not much fun to say out loud. It actually sounds like a cold, hard, grey word. . . .

So, with our expectations lowered, it's time to visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known better as MIT. Here, concrete is treated with an admiration more often reserved for diamonds or gold, especially by Franz-Josef Ulm, one of the top professors in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

View and read the story at BBC News.