House & Home Concrete is a disaster for our planet: can the building industry break its addiction? Concrete: we can't live with it, can't live without it. A combination of cement, water and rock or ...

For soaring bridges, dramatic skyscrapers and even the path around your local park, builders love concrete, making it the most-used building material in the world – but producing the cement used in ...

Most people don't think about the tons of concrete in the buildings and structures around them until disasters strike, such as yesterday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But ...

Concrete: we can’t live with it, can’t live without it. A combination of cement, water and ground rock or sand, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined construction ...