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Reclinker Raises £10m to Turn Demolition Waste Into Cement Inside Steel Furnaces
Cardiff's Reclinker raised £10m to scale a Cambridge-developed process that recycles cement paste from demolition waste into clinker in electric arc steel furnaces.
LA Editorial Team2 Mins read
Full-Scale Hurricane Tests Show Where Manufactured Homes Fail and How Anchoring Saves Them
FIU's Wall of Wind tested FEMA manufactured homes on seven installation systems; weak anchoring and roof-to-wall joints failed, while robust anchoring held at...
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Flat Roof Construction: Warm, Cold and Inverted Roof Build-Ups Explained
Warm, cold and inverted flat roofs use the same layers in a different order, and that order decides deck temperature, ventilation and condensation...
Sinan Ozen9 Mins read
Red Mud From Aluminium Production Could Help Make Low-Carbon Cement, Concordia Study Finds
Concordia researchers calcined red mud and dredged sediment for LC3 cement blends, estimating emission cuts of 25 to 50 percent; the right dose...
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Royal Engineers Test Low-Resource Concrete Made With Crushed Brick, Seawater and 3D Printing
In a three-week research programme, 22 Royal Engineers soldiers tested concrete made with crushed brick and seawater, printed obstacles without formwork and tried...
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Fortera to Build Its First Commercial Low-Carbon Cement Plant at a Missouri Lime Works
Fortera and lime producer MLC plan a 300,000-ton-a-year plant in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, that would turn CO2 captured from lime kilns into ReAct...
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Wave-Shaped Walls and Roofs Cut Peak Wind Pressures on Low-Rise Buildings by Up to 60 Percent
Wind tunnel tests at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering found that deep, regular waves on a low building's walls and roof break up...
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Mammoet Moves a 2,200-Tonne Railway Bridge into Place in Budapest over One Weekend
Mammoet drove the 108 metre southern span of Budapest's new Közvágóhíd railway bridge into place on modular transporters, closing the road below for...
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