News Concrete bosses jailed for years-long price-fixing scam Four executives and a corporation were sentenced last week in the US state of Georgia for participating in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids and allocate jobs for…
News Walmart prints 20ft-high extension to Tennessee supermarket US retailer Walmart has expanded a supermarket in Athens, Tennessee, with a 20ft-high printed concrete structure. The 8,000 sq ft expansion will be used by Walmart’s online pickup and delivery…
News Nearly half of companies say they’d pay more for greener steel and concrete Close to 50% of companies around the world say they’d pay a premium for lower-emission steel and concrete.
Trends Ireland’s concrete block nightmare Thousands of homes in Ireland are crumbling. In videos posted online, angry and despairing owners pull rotten concrete blocks from their walls and dash them to dust on the ground.…
News EU starts procedure against Ireland over defective block crisis In response to thousands of homes crumbling in Ireland because of defective concrete blocks, the European Commission has launched an infringement procedure against the Irish government for allowing the sale…
News See the printed floor cassette researchers say could replace concrete, steel Researchers at the University of Maine have released images of the 3D-printed, natural-material floor cassette they say is strong enough to replace steel-and-concrete floors in multi-storey buildings. The university worked…
Innovation New printed wood floor cassette can replace concrete and steel, say researchers Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine have unveiled a 3D-printed, recyclable, natural-material floor cassette they say is strong enough…
News Concrete poured for reactor 5 at Fujian nuclear power plant Construction has begun on the first of two new reactors, numbers 5 and 6, at the Ningde Nuclear Power Plant in Fujian Province, news website CGTN reports. The first concrete…
News New technology aids 22-hour concrete pour on $7bn Shiziyang Bridge Chinese equipment maker Sany says it has made a technical breakthrough in its work on the Shiziyang road bridge over the Pearl River delta in Guangdong. The $7bn crossing will…
News Vattenfall signs up to buy Cemvision’s near-zero emission cement European energy company Vattenfall has signed a letter of intent with Cemvision for the development and future supply of Cemvision’s near-zero emission cement. They said Cemvision’s new cement has the…
News World’s first clinker-free wind turbine foundation Hoffmann Green Cement and green energy developer The Valorem Group have poured the world’s first wind turbine foundation made from 0% clinker decarbonised concrete. It’s for the Plaine des Moulins…
News Central Asia’s first printed house can withstand earthquakes Central Asia’s first 3D-printed house has been completed in Almaty, southern Kazakhstan. The 100 sq m building is made from extra-strong concrete that will able to withstand earthquakes measuring up…
News Laing O’Rourke sets carbon limits for its concrete in Australia Laing O’Rourke says it’s the first construction company to publish limits for how much embodied emissions can be in the concrete it buys in Australia, either directly or through subcontractors.…
News Swedish university develops of textile-reinforced concrete Researchers from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology are working on a method of using textile-reinforced concrete for the creation of vaulted structures. The team’s work builds on existing work in…
Innovation European firms unveil concrete-timber hybrid walls Swedish concrete-element maker Heidelberg Materials Precast Contiga and Finnish company Metsä Wood have developed a wall panel made from layers of concrete, insulation, and load-bearing laminated veneer lumber. They say…
Projects Low-emissions engineering: Battery power shifts 850-tonne concrete tunnel Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has used battery power to slide an 850-tonne concrete tunnel section into place under railway tracks in Belgium. It took less than an hour to slide the…
News Riyadh to get carbon-negative concrete plant Saudi developer Roshn and US concrete maker Partanna plan to build a carbon-negative concrete factory near Riyadh. Partanna’s method uses a brine activator to cure concrete at room temperature, consuming…
News Mace, Jacobs oversee Greece’s ‘largest concrete pour’ Mace says it has made history in Greece, overseeing with JV partner Jacobs “the single biggest concrete pour in the history of the country” to lay the foundations for the…