Researchers have shown how a by-product of steel making can be used to both treat wastewater and make stronger concrete, in a zero-waste approach to help advance the circular economy. Produced during ...

Heidelberg Materials North America has moved towards sustainability by turning one of its cement plants into a slag grinding facility. Slag is often disregarded as a waste product from metals during ...

When they replaced 20-40% of the slag with dehydrated sludge in a cement mixture, they found that the resultant material had over a 50% higher compressive strength than cements using only GGBS as an ...

To reduce the depletion of natural resources, the study focuses on using slag from electric arc furnaces to substitute cement and fine aggregates by up to 50 and 70%. On the basis of experimental ...

Slag is the molten runoff created while producing steel in a traditional blast furnace. The material has been prized as a greener cement alternative for creating concrete, the Earth’s most abundant ...

As the main gel material of concrete, cement is used in an astonishing amount every year in the construction industry. However, a large amount of CO 2 is emitted into the atmosphere while producing ...

In Times Square, buildings must be larger than life. Twenty-two percent of every New York tourist dollar is spent in Times Square, and it receives 400,000 visitors per day, according to the TSX ...

Concrete and steel production are major sources of CO2 emissions, but a new solution from Cambridge could recycle both at the same time. Throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces not only ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eagle Materials Inc. (NYSE: EXP) announced plans today for Texas Lehigh Cement Company, a 50/50 joint venture between Eagle and Heidelberg Materials North America, to start-up ...

Researchers examined whether steel slag that had been used to treat wastewater could then be recycled as an aggregate material for concrete. Their findings? Concrete made with post-treatment steel ...