BASF and Henkel have signed an agreement under which BASF intends to acquire Henkel’s professional Western European flooring, tiling and waterproofing business in ...
In a paper, researchers contrasts cement paste - concrete’s binding ingredient - with the structure and properties of natural materials such as bones, shells,...
Scientists have developed a technique that can repair old, cracked asphalt. They got their inspiration from a method used in cancer treatment based on nanoparticles. ...
A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Institute as snowflakes begin parachuting toward Omaha on a frigid ...
A new self-healing concrete aims to reduce the requirement for maintenance of structures over the long term by slowing down the effects of deterioration due ...
Cracks in concrete can self-heal when exposed to prolonged wetting, but this is limited to narrow cracks. In practice, cracks > 0.2 mm cause leakage and...
A new water based, environmentally coating provides corrosion protection in outside storage as well as offering corrosion resistance for embedded rebars.
A work aimed to study the performance of ground white and brown chicken eggshell waste powders as potential replacements of conventional quarried limestone in ...
According to a recently published study by Applied Market Information Ltd, polymer based single ply membranes are gaining market share strongly from bitumen...
The fire protection system "Sika Unitherm Platinum” was awarded with a gold medal at the international fair for construction and architecture Budma 2015.
