DEAR TIM: I have a 1938 Cape Cod stone house with a behemoth laundry sink in the basement. It appears to be made of concrete, soap stone or something similar and has two giant tubs. It’s supported by ...

The most unusual job that Mike Mitchell, co-owner of Ultra Concrete Lifting, has ever done is lift a two-and-a-half story house that had sunk nearly six inches. "We raised it up to where it belonged ...

Army training exercises are not typically clean activities. Soldiers often return from the field dirty and their gear caked with mud. When the Fort Jackson Army base in Columbia, S.C., was in need of ...

A new study involving the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that cement structures are a substantial but overlooked absorber of carbon emissions - offsetting some of those emitted during cement ...

Making cement requires a lot of heat and releases large amounts of carbon dioxide. The heat helps transform limestone (calcium carbonate) into clinker, which is largely calcium oxide. This process, ...

The foundation of modern civilization, cement is also one of the biggest culprits of global warming, producing five percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions – or so we've been told. Now, ...

The construction industry as a CO2 sink? Researchers at Empa's Concrete & Asphalt lab are working on this. By incorporating biochar into concrete, they are exploring the potential of CO2-neutral or ...

The recognition of concrete's ability to absorb atmospheric carbon in the latest IPCC climate report means climate change "is worse than we thought," according to Cambridge University materials ...

Concrete’s large carbon footprint—that is, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during the cement manufacturing process—is estimated to be 5% of industrial CO 2 emissions, a source of concern in the ...

Question: I have a a behemoth sink in the laundry room. It appears to be made of concrete, soap stone or something similar and has two giant tubs. It’s supported by a steel stand that’s in pretty good ...

A new study involving the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that cement structures are a substantial but overlooked absorber of carbon emissions – offsetting some of those emitted during cement ...