A university plans to replace concrete ... risk of brittle failure". The University of Sussex is seeking permission to remove Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) panels from its Arts A ...

A joint venture between graphene specialists at The University of Manchester and alumni-led construction firm Nationwide Engineering has developed a product that could revolutionise the concrete ...

As part of addressing this problem, a team at TU Dresden in Germany have completed what is believed to be the world’s first building made with carbon-reinforced concrete, in which the steel ...

This was later combined with steel rods or mesh, known as rebar, to create reinforced concrete, the basis for skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building ... these 12-metre-high walls of ...

Ueda Someyaoka High School’s reinforced concrete building, erected more than 50 ... While many students use the lecture room, the perceived risk of heatstroke was greater there than in other ...