Touching wet cement can cause a chemical burn that may not appear right away and may get worse over time. Some cases require emergency medical care. Cement burns, sometimes also called concrete burns, ...

Jianzhuang Xiao is a professor of recycled concrete materials and structures at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and a vice-president at Guangxi University, Nanning, China. Zongjin Li is a ...

Concrete is ubiquitous in the modern world, but building cities, roads and other infrastructure and more comes with an environmental cost. Cement and concrete production is responsible for significant ...

Analysis: Concrete is the most used construction material in the world and makes up around 5% of Ireland's emissions Cement and concrete are amazing. Yes, you have read that right. Combined, they form ...

Figure 1: Annual carbon sequestration by cement 1930–2013. The concrete life cycle divided into three phases: service life (for example, in buildings), demolition and secondary use (including both ...

Concrete is everywhere: in buildings, roads, sidewalks, bridges and foundations for almost every structure imaginable. We make more concrete than we do any other material on Earth, and that volume is ...

A building block in most construction projects, concrete is responsible for about 8 percent of global carbon emissions. Several companies are working to create a greener mix. Credit... Supported by By ...

As a key input into concrete, the most widely used construction material in the world, cement is a major contributor to climate change. The chemical and thermal combustion processes involved in the ...

Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in existence. It is second only to water as the most-consumed resource on the planet. But, while cement - the key ingredient in concrete - has shaped ...

Photo of workers pouring concrete from a bird's eye view. Manufacturing the cement that binds the world’s concrete structures releases massive amounts of CO 2 into the atmosphere. Credit: Shutterstock ...

New technologies spurred by federal support show a cleaner path forward for the highly emissive cement and concrete industry. Despite cement’s overwhelming presence, the world has been relatively slow ...

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