For the first time, a single cement meets all six ASTM C1157 performance categories simultaneously, a level of versatility typically requiring four separate portland cement formulations. Green cement ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Chief engineers from the City of Portland’s infrastructure bureaus – Environmental Services, Water, and Transportation – approved recommendations last month to use ...

SKOKIE, IL -- The cement manufacturing industry has changed rapidly during the past decade, and the new edition of "Innovations in Portland Cement Manufacturing" addresses this new atmosphere. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Bike lanes in Portland are about to receive a major upgrade. Over the next five years, the Portland Bureau of Transportation is planning to replace plastic stanchions you see ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — With concrete used throughout the city of Portland, city staff and leaders are re-thinking how concrete usage impacts the city’s carbon footprint. According to an announcement ...

Transit agencies such as TriMet often cite reduced carbon pollution as an important benefit to the public. But to take environmental stewardship to the next level, we should look past tailpipes and ...

The 30 billion tons of concrete that the world makes each year have a massive carbon footprint. Cement, the main ingredient, is responsible for around 8% of global emissions—meaning that if it were a ...

Cement is an ancient building material, but its modern form dates back to the 1800s and has facilitated the building of everything from skyscrapers to subterranean shopping malls. David Saylor, a ...

Making cement for concrete involves heating pulverized limestone, clay, and sand to 1,450 °C with a fuel such as coal or natural gas. The process generates a lot of carbon dioxide: making one metric ...