DUMBO hotspot reBar abruptly shut down Friday — leaving 53 stunned employees out of a job and panicked couples who had booked weddings there scrambling to come up with a Plan B. “ReBar is clo… ...

Stevens then went into hiding along with the deposit money of numerous couples, who had put anywhere from $6,000 to $35,000 down to have their wedding receptions at reBar, employees said.

Steel rebar is everywhere, from sidewalks to skyscrapers. “It’s pervasive in any concrete structure. They’re just full of rebar,” says Dan Walczyk, a professor of mechanical engineering at ...

TROY – A pair of professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working with researchers to develop hemp-based rebar, which is typically made as a steel reinforcement, that can be used for ...

An experimental new type of rebar, however, could drastically change that. The problem with existing concrete structures lies in the steel rebar rods that are embedded within them for support.