BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prometheus Materials, a leader in sustainable building materials, announced today the achievement of remarkable results in the ASTM C423 sound-absorption testing of ...

Concrete is one of the quiet foundations of modern life, yet it is also one of the dirtiest materials humanity produces. A new generation of bio-concrete aims to flip that script, using living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in Germany have successfully turned urine into bio-concrete, as part of a project aiming to revolutionize sustainable ...

As pedestrians head down Halsted Street in the Fulton Market district, a spiral structure in the middle of the Mews Pedway invites them to walk toward its center. At a glance, the coil seems to have ...

Cement production accounts for 8 percent of annual CO2 emissions and consumes 9 percent of annual industrial water on a global basis, making reducing cement’s impact on climate change a huge challenge ...

In the “SimBioZe” project, researchers are using human urine to produce a sustainable building material. As the urine already contains water, no additional water is required for the process.

Concrete is one of the most durable building materials used in modern-day infrastructures, but it has a weakness -- ice -- which can cause it to crumble. Now, inspired by organisms that survive in sub ...